Is it the flu? Maybe, maybe not
Clallam, Jefferson seeing higher level
of respiratory syncytial virus this year
By Leah Leach
and Paul Gottlieb

“We’re seeing a higher level of RSV
than other years,” Locke said, adding
that there’s no vaccine for it.
That doesn’t mean the flu isn’t going
around.

Peninsula Daily News

You’re coughing and have chills and
fever. Your muscles ache. You have no
energy. Is it the flu?
Not necessarily.
It could be something called respiratory syncytial virus — or RSV — which
is especially serious for young children
but that can affect others.
“You’re sicker than the common cold,
but it isn’t influenza,” said Dr. Tom
Locke, public health officer for Clallam
and Jefferson counties.

Verge of flu outbreak
“We’re on the verge of the outbreak
mode of the flu season” on the North
Olympic Peninsula, Locke said Tuesday.
“Each week, it gets a little worse.”
Public schools inform the county public health office when they have 10 percent or more absenteeism because of illness.

On Feb. 18, the Port Angeles School
District reported 11 percent absenteeism
because of illness, Locke said.
Such reports are usually about two
weeks before the peak of the flu season,
Locke said.
No other school districts on the Peninsula have called in about absenteeism,
he said.
Both Olympic Medical Center and
Jefferson Healthcare have had two labconfirmed cases of flu, Locke said.
“We re definitely seeing flu in the
community,” he added.
But if you got a flu shot this year,
then influenza probably isn’t the source
of your malaise.
Each year’s flu vaccine is actually
the product of experts’ best guess
about which strain will cover the
Earth that year. Some years, the experts

College

guess wrong.
That isn’t the case this year.

Vaccine covers all strains
“All the influenza we’re seeing in the
U.S. are the strains covered by the flu
vaccine,” Locke said.
It takes about 10 to 14 days for the
vaccine to start working, he added.
It isn’t infallible, though. It covers the
vast majority of people, but not all.
And not all influenza-like illness is
caused by influenza virus.
“Any flu season, there’s always a mix
of influenza and influenza-like illness,”
Locke said.
Locke said only about 20 percent of
those with influenza-like illness actually
have the flu.
Turn

to

Virus/A4

cuts coming

Charlie Bermant/Peninsula Daily News

The Water Street repaving began Monday, limiting access to the
Jefferson County Historical Society, left, and the Northwest
Maritime Center, right.

PORT TOWNSEND — After a weather-imposed delay, work on the Water
Street repaving and sidewalk replacement has begun.
Downtown’s busiest thoroughfare closed between Monroe Street and Adams
Street on Monday and is scheduled to be reopened March 25.
During the closure, through traffic is being routed through Quincy Street and
Washington Street, with semitruck and recreational vehicle traffic detoured into
the Uptown neighborhood.
While the sidewalks are being replaced, a temporary path will allow pedestrian
access to the Northwest Maritime Center, said Tom Miller, project manager.
After Water Street is reopened, the next step will be the paving of both sides of
Madison Street, scheduled for completion April 15.
Also to be finished April 15 is the paving and landscaping of Pope Marine Park.
Turn

School to eliminate
positions, programs
Funding anticipated
to drop $1.7 million
over next two years
By Tom Callis

Peninsula Daily News

Judge considering roundabout
lawsuit filed against city of PT
By Charlie Bermant

the lawsuit last May challenging the city
for eliminating one access to the business
and claiming the city made promises it did
not keep about its plans.
The construction of the roundabout
turned Fifth Street, which previously
allowed traffic to turn off Sims Way and
pull up to the front of the store, into a dead
end, restricting access to the store and
hurting the business, the complaint said.
“This case is about property rights and
whether the government should be allowed
to violate them,” said the Kellys’ attorney,
Shane Seaman of Port Hadlock.
“And if you violate someone’s property
rights, you are required to compensate
them.”
The Kellys’ original lawsuit was filed in
Jefferson County Superior Court.

■ Full-time positions eliminated: 17.
The cuts would be made through
seven retirements, four resignations,
five layoffs and not renewing a contract that expires June 30.
They are two faculty positions —
in the massage and English programs — eight office support staff,
two maintenance support staff and
five administrative positions.
■ Part-time positions eliminated: four.
The cuts would be made through
the loss of the massage program and
an administrative assistant position
in the Bachelor of Applied Science
program.
The college currently has 8,737
students and 723 employees.
Enrollment would be reduced by
50 full-time students.
Peninsula Daily News

PORT ANGELES — The state’s budget
ax is once again falling on Peninsula College.
In response to an expected loss of
$1.7 million in state funding over the next
two years, the college plans to eliminate
17 full-time positions, five part-time positions and its massage and fisheries associate degree programs, as well as reduce
annual enrollment by 50 full-time students.
The college eliminated nine positions in
2009 in the face of $1.5 million in cuts.
The cuts, announced to staff members
Friday, are based on Gov. Chris Gregoire’s
proposed budget and may change depending on what measures the state Legislature
passes.
College President Tom Keegan said the
purpose of the cuts, to be approved by the
board of trustees, is to avoid reducing the
The cuts involve the loss of two faculty
quality of college offerings.
“We are not going to sacrifice quality, positions — one in the massage program,
and we’re not going to sacrifice academic the other in the English Department.
rigor as we cut the budget,” he said
The English faculty member is retiring,
“However, with cuts of that magnitude,
Keegan said.
something has to give.
Turn to Cuts/A4
“And what’s going to give is access.”

PORT TOWNSEND — The owners of a
hardware store who filed a lawsuit against
the city of Port Townsend saying that the
Thomas Street roundabout caused a significant loss to business have filed a motion
for summary judgement that would send
the case to trial.
Federal Judge Ronald B. Leighton’s ruling, which is expected within 45 days of the
Feb. 11 filing, could instead favor the city
— which has filed its own motion for summary judgement asking the judge to dismiss all claims — and end the lawsuit.
Leighton may ask to hear oral arguments in the case or could decide to make
his ruling based on the case file.
Ken and Jane Kelly, co-owners of Vintage Hardware at 2000 W. Sims Way, filed

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Katie Holmes
sues Star
over cover
KATIE HOLMES
SUED the publishers of
Star Magazine on Tuesday,
accusing them of libel over a
magazine cover that insinuated she was a drug addict.
The
actress filed
the lawsuit
against
American
Media Inc.
in federal
court in Los
Angeles.
Holmes
She said a
January cover that featured
the headline “Katie DRUG
SHOCKER!” was false and
not supported by the actual
story in the magazine.
The cover featured a
disheveled picture of Holmes, and the story itself
claimed she was “trapped in
a cycle of addictive treatments,” based on interviews
with former Scientology
members.
“Star Magazine’s malicious claims about Katie are
untrue, unethical and
unlawful,” Holmes’ attorney,

Bert Fields, wrote in a
statement.
“Not only do they cruelly
defame Katie, they play a
cheap trick on the public,
making ridiculously false
claims on the cover unsupported by anything inside.”
The complaint also states
the cover story implies that
Holmes is looking to split
from husband Tom Cruise,
which the lawsuit states is
untrue.
Star Magazine is standing by its story and said in a
statement that it raises significant concerns about
Church of Scientology practices, including the use of
e-meters, devices that practitioners believe detect mental
trauma.
Holmes, who starred in
the television series “Dawson’s Creek” and numerous
films, is seeking more than
$50 million in damages.

Aguilera arrested
Singer Christina Aguilera and her boyfriend
have been arrested on suspicion of being drunk in a car
that was stopped on a West
Hollywood, Calif., street.
Sheriff’s Deputy Bill
McSweeney said Aguilera
was a passenger in the car

The Associated Press

Christina Aguilera,
right, arrives with
Matthew Rutler for the
Golden Globe Awards
in Beverly Hills, Calif.,
in mid-January.
that was stopped at about
2:45 a.m. Tuesday.
Her boyfriend, 25-yearold Matthew Rutler, was
booked on suspicion of driving under the influence. His
bail was set at $30,000.
McSweeney said Aguilera
appeared to be extremely
intoxicated and unable to
look after her own welfare.
A sheriff’s website said
she was booked on suspicion
of a misdemeanor, but
McSweeney said she’s essentially being held at the West
Hollywood sheriff’s station
for her own protection and is
expected to be released
without facing criminal
charges.

Passings
By The Associated Press

SUZE ROTOLO, 67, an
artist and Bob Dylan’s girlfriend and lyrical muse
when he came to prominence in the early 1960s,
died Friday.
Ms.
Rotolo,
whose relationship
with the
singer lasted
only a few
years from
the time she Ms. Rotolo
was 17, died
of lung cancer in New York
City, said her agent, Sarah
Lazin.
So taken was Dylan, his
1963 album, “The Freewheelin Bob Dylan,” was fronted
by the iconic photo of the
artist and Ms. Rotolo walking arm in arm on a snowy
Greenwich Village street.
“The fact is that from
early on, Suze’s left-wing
politics had an impact on
Dylan’s early writing,” said
Rolling Stone contributing
editor Anthony DeCurtis.
“There’s no question that
she became both an abstract
muse and a very practical
one. He has said that he
would run songs past her.”
DeCurtis thinks their
relationship waned when
she became overwhelmed by
the worldwide fame that
cascaded down on him as an
icon of his era.
Ms. Rotolo, who remained

an activist all her life, is also
believed to be the subject of
a number of legendary
Dylan songs, including
“Don’t Think Twice, It’s All
Right,” “Boots of Spanish
Leather” and “Tomorrow Is
a Long Time.”

_________

THE REV. PETER J.
GOMES, 68, a nationally
influential Baptist minister
and advocate for tolerance
who oversaw Harvard University’s Memorial Church
for more than 30 years, has
died.
The Rev.
Gomes died
Monday in
Cambridge,
Mass., of
complications from a
stroke,
according to The Rev. Gomes
a university in 2000
statement.
The Rev. Gomes
described himself as a cultural conservative but
stunned the Harvard community in 1991 when he

said he was gay in response
to harassment against gays
on campus.
He published 11 volumes
of sermons, as well as books,
including 1996’s The Good
Book: Reading the Bible
with Mind and Heart, in
which he analyzed the
Bible’s use in marginalizing
Jews, blacks, women and
gays.
He condemned those who
used the Bible to justify racism, oppression and
homophobia but also steadfastly defended the text’s
message.

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Setting it Straight
Corrections and clarifications

■ The photographer who shot the Kalaloch winter
storm waves photo on Page C1 Sunday is John Vass. Vass
also shot the photo of the sea stack on the same page.
His name was misspelled, and the sea stack photo
was incorrectly attributed.
Also, to clarify, the price of $315 per night for an
ocean-facing Bluff cabin is for a two-bedroom cabin. The
smallest ocean-facing bluff cabins are $229 per night,
said Chris McKinney, director of sales and marketing for
Aramark on the Olympic Peninsula.
■ The wedding announcement for Cassandra Anderson and Jim Zitarrosa of Sequim, which appeared in
Sunday’s edition of Peninsula Woman, contained an
incorrect name for the mother of the bride. She is Kathleen Anderson of Sequim.

_________
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Peninsula Lookback

From the pages of the Peninsula Daily News

1936 (75 years ago)
Casper Maxfield, 55,
rancher in the Shuwah
Prairie district between
Beaver and Forks, drowned
when his borrowed car
plunged from the Olympic
Highway into Lake Crescent.
The car, a brown Ford
two-door sedan, was pulled
from the lake shortly before
noon today with Maxfield’s
body still behind the wheel.
Bill Payne, a freight
truck driver, saw the headlights from the sunken car
shining from a depth of
more than 50 feet in the
lake.
He rushed an alarm to

1961 (50 years ago)
Mike Nelson, 13, from
Queen of Angels School in
Port Angeles won the Port
Angeles Evening News Port
Angeles hoop shoot title at
Roosevelt High School gym.
Nelson calmly tossed in
19 out of 25 free throws
through the hoop to beat
out Ed Bedford of Roose­

velt and Dennis Reynolds
of Dry Creek School.
Bedford hit 17 and
Reynolds 11.
All three will represent
their respective schools at
the district tournament in
Bremerton next week.

1986 (25 years ago)
Last December’s Port
Angeles oil spill affected a
significantly higher number of waterfowl than was
earlier estimated, according to a report submitted to
the state Department of
Game.
The report, written by
Terence Wahl, who collected data from a low-fly-

ing aircraft as well as from
bird rescuers, said about
4,000 birds — not 2,500
estimated earlier — were
killed as a result of the oil.
The tanker Arco Anchorage ran around in Port
Angeles Harbor, sending a
spill that eventually
stretched from Dungeness
Spit to Neah Bay.

Laugh Lines
NEW YORK CITY has
gone for days now without
any measurable snowfall.
Kids are back to making
good old-fashioned garbage
angels.
Jimmy Fallon

Looking Back
From the files of The Associated Press

TODAY IS WEDNESDAY,
March 2, the 61st day of 2011.
There are 304 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlights in History:
■ On March 2, 1861, the state
of Texas, having seceded from the
Union, was admitted to the Confederacy. The Territory of Nevada
came into existence under an act
signed by President James
Buchanan.
On this date:
■ In 1793, the first president
of the Republic of Texas, Sam
Houston, was born near Lexington,
Va.
■ In 1836, the Republic of
Texas formally declared its independence from Mexico.
■ In 1877, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the

winner of the 1876 presidential
election over Democrat Samuel J.
Tilden, even though Tilden had
won the popular vote.
■ In 1899, Mount Rainier
National Park in Washington state
was established.
■ In 1917, Puerto Ricans were
granted U.S. citizenship as President Woodrow Wilson signed the
Jones-Shafroth Act.
■ In 1939, Roman Catholic
Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli was
elected pope on his 63rd birthday;
he took the name Pius XII.
■ In 1943, the World War II
Battle of the Bismarck Sea began;
U.S. and Australian warplanes
were able to inflict heavy damage
on a Japanese convoy.
■ In 1977, the U.S. House of

Representatives adopted a strict
code of ethics.
■ In 1989, representatives
from the 12 European Community
nations agreed to ban all production of CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons)
by the end of the 20th century.
■ In 1990, more than 6,000
drivers went on strike against
Greyhound Lines Inc.; the company, later declaring an impasse in
negotiations, fired the strikers.
■ Ten years ago: The United
Nations tried in vain to persuade
Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban to
reverse its decision to destroy a
pair of giant, ancient statues of
Buddha and other Buddhist relics
that the regime considered idolatrous.
■ Five years ago: President
George W. Bush and Indian Prime

Minister Manmohan Singh
announced a landmark civilian
nuclear cooperation deal in New
Delhi.
The Senate voted 89-10 to
renew the USA Patriot Act.
“Killer nurse” Charles Cullen,
who’d murdered 22 patients in
New Jersey alone, was sentenced
in Somerville to spend the rest of
his life in prison.
■ One year ago: Authorities
in San Diego County found the
body of 17-year-old Chelsea King,
who’d been missing since Feb. 25,
2010; John Albert Gardner III
later pleaded guilty to raping and
murdering King and another victim, 14-year-old Amber Dubois; he
was sentenced to life in prison
without the possibility of parole.

Peninsula Daily News for Wednesday, March 2, 2011

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A3

Briefly: Nation
House votes for
cuts, averting
shutdown now

Murtha.”
But a
spokeswoman
for Navy Secretary Ray
Mabus said he
is sticking
WASHINGTON — The House with his decion Tuesday approved a two-week sion to name a
budget measure that cuts $4 bil- warship for
lion in federal spending.
the Pennsylva- Murtha
Senate Democrats said they
nia Democrat,
would quickly pass the bill and
a retired Marine Reserves colonel
send it to President Obama,
and former chairman of a House
averting any immediate threat of defense appropriations panel,
a government shutdown when
who died in February.
current financing runs out Friday.
“That the Congressman’s
But the bill, approved on a
unwavering support of our Sailbipartisan vote of 335 to 91,
ors and Marines, and in particuextends only through March 18
lar our wounded warriors, was
— allowing little time for the
well known and deeply appreciRepublican-led House and the
ated,” Capt. Beci Brenton said in
Democratic-led Senate to bridge
an e-mail.
substantial divisions over how
“ . . . The Secretary does not
much to cut spending for the
intend to change the name.”
remainder of the fiscal year that
Deep cuts in Wis.
ends Sept. 30.
In a sign of continuing partiMADISON, Wis. — After
san tensions over spending, Dem- focusing for weeks on his proocrats said Speaker John A.
posal to strip public employees of
Boehner had rebuffed overtures
collective bargaining rights, Gov.
from the White House and SenScott Walker on Tuesday preate to approve a 30-day extension sented his full budget proposal
with $8 billion in spending cuts
— a plan that cuts
to provide some breathing room
$1.5 billion in aid to public
for the broader negotiations.
schools and government but
avoids any tax or fee increases,
Murtha still afloat
furloughs or widespread layoffs.
WASHINGTON — The Navy
Walker said the cuts could be
says it is forging ahead with its
paid for in large part by forcing
decision to name a warship for
government employees to pay
the late Rep. John Murtha,
more for their pension and
health care benefits. But his prodespite protests the decorated
posal to do that — and to elimiVietnam War veteran was disloyal in his 2006 accusation that nate most collective bargaining
— remains in limbo after Senate
Marines had murdered Iraqi
Democrats fled the state to precivilians.
Three Facebook sites opposing vent a vote.
The governor released his
the Navy’s April 2010 decision
two-year budget in part to supbristle with thousands of angry
postings. The Navy website with port his argument that public
worker concessions are essential
the announcement drew critical
to confront a projected $3.6 bilcomments. The Washington
lion shortfall.
Times voiced its outrage in an
The Associated Press
editorial entitled “Sink the

Briefly: World
Gadhafi’s forces
retake towns
near capital
TRIPOLI, Libya — Moammar Gadhafi’s forces battled
poorly armed rebels Tuesday for
control of towns near the capital
as they tried to create a buffer
zone around his seat of power.
The increasingly violent
clashes threatened to transform
the 15-day popular rebellion in
Libya into a drawn-out civil war.
Amid the intensified fighting,
the international community
stepped up moves to isolate the
longtime Libyan leader.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he ordered two
ships into the Mediterranean,
including the amphibious
assault ship USS Kearsarge,
and he is sending 400 Marines
to the vessel to replace some
troops that left recently for
Afghanistan.

whom the U.S. has linked to alQaida.
“Go on until you achieve your
demands,” Sheik Abdul-Majid
al-Zindani told tens of thousands of demonstrators in the
capital of Sanaa.
Some warned that the current political turmoil and possible collapse of Saleh’s regime
could give a further opening to
Yemen’s offshoot of the global
terror network known as alQaida in the Arabian Peninsula.

Death penalty in India

AHMADABAD, India — An
Indian court sentenced 11 Muslims to death Tuesday after
finding them guilty of setting
fire to a train in which 60 Hindus were killed nine years ago,
an act that triggered one of
India’s worst outbursts of communal violence.
The 11 were among the 31
Muslims who were convicted
last week of being part of a
criminal conspiracy that led to
the deaths of 60 people in the
fire on the Sabarmati Express
U.S., Israel blamed
train coach packed with Hindu
SANAA, Yemen — Yemen’s
pilgrims in western Gujarat
embattled president Tuesday
state in 2002.
accused the U.S., his closest ally,
Judge P.R. Patel sentenced
of instigating the mounting pro- the remaining 20 defendants to
tests against him, but the gam- life in prison, prosecutor J.M.
bit failed to slow the momentum Panchal said.
for his ouster.
Sixty-three others were
In a speech to about 500 stu- acquitted, including Maulvi
dents and lecturers at Sanaa
Umarji, a local politician who
University, President Ali Abdul- prosecutors said was the leader
lah Saleh claimed the U.S.,
of the mob that set fire to the
along with Israel, is behind the
train.
protest movement.
The train deaths set off days
Hundreds of thousands ralof communal riots when Hindu
lied in cities across Yemen in
mobs rampaged through Musthe largest anti-government
lim neighborhoods, towns and
protests of the past month,
villages in Gujarat from Februincluding a gathering addressed ary to April 2002.
by an influential firebrand cleric
The Associated Press

The Associated Press

Sgt. Cornelius Trammell clears a hurdle as he demonstrates one of the elements of the
Army’s new “combat readiness” test at Fort Jackson, S.C., on Tuesday.

Combat-ready fitness
goal of new Army test
By Susanne M. Schafer
The Associated Press

FORT JACKSON, S.C. — Situps don’t make a soldier, the
Army has decided. So its 30-yearold fitness requirements are getting a battlefield-inspired makeover.
Soon, every soldier will have to
run on a balance beam with two
30-pound canisters of ammunition, drag a sled weighted with
180 pounds of sandbags and vault
over obstacles while carrying a
rifle.
Those were just some of the
tests the Army unveiled Tuesday
as it moves toward making its
physical training look more like
combat.
Right now, soldiers have to
complete sit-ups, pushups and a
two-mile run twice a year within
times that vary by age and gender.
Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling, the
general in charge of the Army’s
initial military training, said he
has been working to change that
test for years.
Hertling said the current test
“does not adequately measure
components of strength, endurance or mobility,” or predict how
well a soldier would do under fire.
A new annual “combat readi-

ness” test includes running 400
meters — about a quarter of a
mile — with a rifle, moving
through an obstacle course in full
combat gear and crawling and
vaulting over obstacles while aiming a rifle.
Soldiers also will have to run
on a balance beam while carrying
30-pound ammo boxes and do an
agility sprint around a course
field of cones.
Soldiers also will have to drag
sleds weighted with sandbags to
test their ability to pull a fallen
comrade from the battlefield.
The combat test might be
given before deployments as well
as annually, but that has not been
decided.

Some elements remain
The Army will keep elements
of its old assessment in a “physical readiness” test, which adds
such things as a 60-yard shuttle
run and a standing long jump to
one minute of pushups and a 1.5mile timed run.
This might be given every six
months, said Frank Palkoska,
head of the Army’s Fitness School
at Fort Jackson.
Hertling said trials of the new
program are starting this month
at eight bases, including Joint

Base Lewis-McChord, and the
plan could be adopted Army-wide
after reviews later this year.
Soldiers who ran the proposed
“combat readiness” portion of the
test Tuesday told reporters the
exercises were tough, even for
combat veterans.
The tests will be given to all
soldiers and officers, including
Army Reserves and National
Guard, even those recalled soldiers who are now older than 60,
officials said.
Specific gender and age standards are still being worked out,
Palkoska said.
The shift follows other Army
efforts to overhaul training,
improve diets and help older soldiers keep fit.
Hertling said the Army is trying to better-prepare soldiers for
the 40 to 70 pounds of weapons
and body armor many of them
need to carry in Afghanistan and
Iraq.
The Army also is hoping to
reduce injuries — both in the field
and from repetitive exercises.
The program also will be tested
at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.; Fort
Benning, Ga.; Fort Sill, Okla.; Fort
Bliss, Texas; Fort Bragg, N.C.; and
at the Army’s military academy at
West Point.

WASHINGTON — Republican
governors and members of Congress vowed Tuesday to fight an
Obama administration plan to
make millions of acres of undeveloped land in the West eligible for
federal wilderness protection.
The GOP officials said the plan
would circumvent Congress’s
authority and could be used to
declare a vast swath of public
land off-limits to oil-and-gas drilling.
Rep. Denny Rehberg, R-Mont.,
said the policy threatens the economy in rural Western states and
accused the Obama administration of waging a “war on the
West.”
Idaho Gov. Butch Otter called
the plan “a drastic change in public policy for public lands that was
done without public input.”
He called on Congress to “take
back its authority” and block the

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new policy.
Utah Gov. Gary Herbert,
appearing with Otter at a hearing
before the House Natural
Resources Committee, called on
the GOP-led panel to “help us
right a very real and very damaging wrong.”
Herbert said a December order
by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar
was harming rural communities
throughout Utah whose economies rely on use of public lands.
“This order hinders rural economic development and hurts key
funding sources for Utah’s school
children,” Herbert said, noting
that royalties from mineral development are a primary founding
sources for Utah schools.
Salazar announced plans in
December to reverse a Bush-era
policy and make millions of acres
of public land again eligible for
wilderness protection. The socalled wild lands plan replaces a
2003 policy — dubbed by critics as

“No More Wilderness” — that
opened Western lands to commercial development.
A spokeswoman for Salazar
called the new policy a commonsense solution that will help the
agency better-manage public
lands, waters and wildlife.
“As a Westerner himself, Secretary Salazar believes that the
wild lands policy is a straightforward, practical approach that
restores balance to the management of public lands,” spokeswoman Kendra Barkoff said.
The policy by itself does not
itself create any wild lands designation, nor does it require that
any particular lands be protected,
said Bob Abbey, director of the
Bureau of Land Management.
Designation as wild land can
only be made after public comments and review and does not
necessarily prohibit motor vehicle
use or the staking of new mining
claims, Abbey said.

. . . more news to start your day

Nation: Town to shame
owners of abandoned sites

Nation: ‘Jeopardy!’ win vs.
Watson is rocket science

World: New Israeli weapon
downs anti-tank rocket

Space: Station gets some
much-needed storage room

THE HEALTH BOARD in Webster,
Mass., has approved a plan to shame
owners of rundown buildings into fixing
and securing their properties.
The plan approved Monday allows
the town to place 4-by-8-foot signs on
the sides of dilapidated buildings with
the owner’s names, address and telephone number.
Selectman Mark Dowgiewicz said it
costs up to $9,000 per year for police
responses and other expenses to deal
with squatters, vandals and other problems.
Building owners have ignored
requests from the town to secure
vacant properties.

TURNS OUT ALL it took to top
Watson, the “Jeopardy!”-winning computer, was a rocket scientist.
U.S. Rep. Rush Holt of New Jersey
is just such a scientist.
The success of Holt — a five-time
champion during the trivia show’s original run 35 years ago — topped the
IBM computer Monday night in a
“Jeopardy!” exhibition match of congressmen vs. machine held at a Washington hotel.
Holt, a Democrat, built a lead in categories including “Presidential Rhyme
Time,” in which the correct response to
“Herbert’s military strategy” was
“Hoover’s maneuvers.”

A NEW ISRAELI weapons system
knocked down a Palestinian anti-tank
rocket in its first combat test Tuesday,
the military said.
Palestinian militants said they fired
a rocket-propelled grenade at an Israeli
tank as it patrolled near the GazaIsrael border, a frequent occurrence.
The “Trophy” system sensed the
incoming rocket and fired its own projectile, blowing it up away from the
tank, the military said.
Tanks have relied on heavier and
thicker armor plating. If the technology
works consistently, it could allow the
construction of smaller, lighter and
more efficient tanks.

THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE
Station got a sorely needed storage
room Tuesday, a 21-foot-long supply
closet packed with goods and a
humanoid robot that will remain boxed
up for another two months.
The space station and space shuttle
crews teamed up to attach the newest
module, using a hefty robot arm to
anchor it down.
It became the 13th room at the
sprawling outpost and the only one
devoted entirely to storage.
Built in Italy, the new compartment
is named Leonardo, after Leonardo da
Vinci.

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Lawsuit: Received support of former councilman
Continued from A1 cussed this with city planners.â&#x20AC;?
Kelly has received the
It requested the judge
determine the damage support of former Port
Townsend City Councilman
amount.
Its move to federal dis- Geoff Masci, who said in a
trict court at the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Feb. 11 declaration that the
request means the cost of city chose the location of the
the award will be deter- Thomas Street roundabout
mined at trial if it occurs, â&#x20AC;&#x153;before the necessary studSeaman said.
ies justifying its location
were performed.â&#x20AC;?
Improvement
Masci, who chaired the
Ken Kelly built the Vic- Public Works Committee
torian-style building espe- during the time the roundcially for his business, relo- abouts were approved, said
cating from California, and 12 alternatives were winmade about $300,000 in nowed down to four without
improvements required by any input from his committhe city to Fifth Street at tee.
his own expense, he said in
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The City Council went
a court filing.
from presentations of alterâ&#x20AC;&#x153;Had I known the city natives at one [meeting to
was going to tear out my vote] for approval at
improvements and cut off another meeting with no
my direct access to Sims intervening studies or analWay three years later, I ysis,â&#x20AC;? Masci said in his decwould never have agreed to laration.
improve and install Fifth
Street as required,â&#x20AC;? Kelly City: Case has no merit
said in his Jan. 5 declaraCity Attorney John
tion.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Through the permitting Watts said the Kellysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; case
process, the design and the has no merit and that the
substantial
discussions city has operated within the
with the city regarding this law.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;A municipality has the
project, it was always my
belief that Fifth Street was authority to change traffic
our parking lot with a direct configurations and close
access to [state Highway] streets, and does not owe
20, and I personally dis- abutting owners any com-

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Prior to the construction of the Thomas Street roundabout, Vintage Hardware customers could
drive up to the store on a through street, but the construction blocked that access.
pensation so long as reasonable access remains,â&#x20AC;? Watts
wrote in an e-mail to the
Peninsula Daily News.
Watts said Fifth Street
in front of Vintage Hard-

ware is a city street that the
city controls and is not a
private parking lot.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Kellys are not entitled to control the design of
a public road project. That

design was approved by a
majority vote of elected representatives following several years of process and
review of alternatives,â&#x20AC;?
Watts wrote.

__________
Jefferson County Reporter
Charlie Bermant can be reached at
360-385-2335 or at charlie.
bermant@peninsuladailynews.
com.

Virus: Flu often causes fever, cough, headaches
Continued from A1 cases we are seeing,â&#x20AC;? Walker
said.
The state Department of
Neither Olympic Medical Center nor Jefferson Health said the flu virus
Healthcare has seen a dra- has been circulating in most
matic spike in flu-like ill- communities during the
nesses including serious past few weeks, sometimes
colds, OMC spokesman Jeff at increasing levels, and
Anderson and Jefferson will likely continue to circuHealthcare Infection Pre- late throughout March.
Flu often causes fever,
ventionist Cynthia Walker
cough, sore throat, muscle
said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are seeing a gradual aches, headaches and
incline in the number of fatigue.

People at high risk for
complications of flu include
those younger than 5 years
old but especially children
younger than 2 years old,
those 65 years or older,
pregnant women and those
with underlying medical
conditions, including being
severely overweight.
Those at high risk
for complications who have
flu symptoms should contact their health care pro-

vider immediately.
Antiviral medications
can decrease the likelihood
of complications. Treatment
works best when started
early.
People who have flu
symptoms should stay away
from others, cover their
coughs and wash their
hands frequently to avoid
spreading the infection.
Since flu is likely to circulate for several weeks, it

is still beneficial to get the
flu vaccine if you havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
already.
Clallam County Health
& Human Services is not
providing seasonal influenza vaccinations to adults
this year. Shots are offered
at many pharmacies and
other locations.
Jean Baldwin, director of
Jefferson County Public
Health, said the vaccine is
still available at Safeway

and at doctorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s offices. For
more information on Jefferson County immunizations,
visit www.jeffersoncounty
publichealth.org.

________
Managing Editor/News Leah
Leach can be reached at 360-4173531 or leah.leach@peninsula
dailynews.com.
Senior Staff Writer Paul Gottlieb
can be reached at 360-417-3536
or at paul.gottlieb@peninsuladaily
news.com.

Cuts: Fisheries program to be eliminated now
Continued from A1 in enrollment will be made
through the loss of the fishNo faculty cuts would be eries and massage promade at the collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s loca- grams, as well as reductions
tions in Port Townsend and in spaces available with the
collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;adult special
Forks, he said.
Cuts to enrollment and interest courses,â&#x20AC;? such as
classes come at a time when basic computer classes.
more people, mostly unemployed, are seeking a com- Massage program
munity college education,
No new students will be
Keegan acknowledged.
accepted into the massage
â&#x20AC;&#x153;My preference is to program.
serve every citizen of ClalThe program, which
lam and Jefferson counties would technically be suswho wants to come here,â&#x20AC;? he pended, has 13 students,
said.
each of whom will be
The 3-percent reduction allowed to finish their

classes, said Aleilah Lawson, program coordinator.
The Fisheries and Aquaculture Program would be
eliminated immediately.
The programâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one faculty member, Jack Ganzhorn, will teach other science classes, Keegan said.
Some fisheries-related
classes will still be offered
under other programs, but
there wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be a degree or
certificate.
Ganzhorn is on sabbatical, and none of the programâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s classes have been
taught this year.

The fisheries degree has
been offered at the college
for decades, at least since
the 1970s.
Keegan said those two
programs were selected
because they have a â&#x20AC;&#x153;higher
cost,â&#x20AC;? in terms of the ratio of
students to teachers, than
others.
While the massage program has had solid enrollment, the fisheries program
has languished, with only
seven students enrolled last
year, he said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty much been in
single digits in the recent
history,â&#x20AC;? Keegan said.
Keegan said the cuts will
go into effect in July, the
beginning of the budget
cycle. But one employee has
already received her pink
slip.

Lila Morris said she was
notified last Wednesday
that she has two weeks left
as assistant to the director
of the Bachelor of Applied
Science program.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We knew that somebody, that people were going
to get laid off,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We
didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know who.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was hoping it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
me, but I guess it was.â&#x20AC;?
Keegan said Morrisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; job
is one of the five part-time
positions being eliminated
and the only immediate layoff.
The BAS programâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
director is retiring, and that
position wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be filled, he
said. Those duties will be
handled by other staff,
Keegan said.
The other four part-time
positions being eliminated

Repaving: Work

Continued from A1 Michelle Sandoval said
they could have proceeded
Then, a bronze sculp- last summer, but merchants
ture, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Salish Sea Circle,â&#x20AC;? by requested the street not be
artist Gerard Tsutakawa closed during tourist seawill be installed at the corson.
ner of Water and Madison
The work was scheduled
streets.
to begin last Tuesday but
was postponed until MonLong time coming
day because of a forecast of
The repairs and renovations are a long time com- extreme weather.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The improvements to
ing.
At this weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jefferson Water Street are making it
County Chamber of Com- better for our community,â&#x20AC;?
merce luncheon, Mayor Sandoval said.

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Man, utility
at odds over
cat service
The Associated Press

MEDICAL LAKE â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
Aaron Lawrence finally
called Inland Power after
watching for four days as a
cat sat atop a power pole in
his neighborâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s yard outside
Medical Lake. He told KHQ
he worried the cat would
touch a live wire and damage
the transformer.
He called Feb. 12, and a
dispatcher told him heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be
billed if linemen were sent
out. Lawrence said he asked
about options. The utility
said he used offensive language and threatened to get
a truck of his own.
Either way, a crew was
dispatched on a Saturday
night. They arrived, found
the pole and started up their
truck. The sound apparently
scared the cat off the pole;
the animal vanished into the
night.
But thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the end.
Lawrence was charged more
than $385.
He said heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s thinking
about whether heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll pay;
KHQ said the utility is considering what it will do if he
doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.

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are in the massage program.
Three would lose their
jobs in July, Keegan said.
One would stay on until the
last of the students graduate, likely in spring 2012,
Lawson said.
Lawson said she was
more saddened than disappointed to hear her program would be suspended.
Massage therapy, she
said, has shown to be a good
career for the unemployed.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;You can train for a great
job in nine months,â&#x20AC;? Lawson said.

OLYMPIA — Washington
state added 11,000 jobs in
January as the state’s unemployment rate dropped to
9.1 percent from 9.3 percent
in December, officials said
Tuesday.
The 11,000 nonagricultural jobs added on a season-

ally adjusted basis represented the strongest month
of job growth in more than
three years — since November 2007, the month before
the national recession began.
“We’re certainly seeing
positive news,” said Dave
Wallace, chief economist for
the state Employment Security Department.

“My instinct is to be some- role, which could mean more
what cautious and see what revisions to the figures
the revisions will be in the ahead.
coming months.”
But Employment Security Commissioner Paul
Jeffco-Clallam next week Trause was optimistic.
“It’s unusual to have job
January’s unemployment
rates for Clallam and Jeffer- gains in the middle of winter,
son counties are scheduled so this is another positive
for release next week, on sign that the recovery is
under way,” Trause said.
Tuesday.
The state has added
Wallace said the statewide figures released this 20,500 jobs from January
week are the first ones under 2010 to January of this year.
The dip in the seasonally
a new national system in
which the federal govern- adjusted unemployment rate
ment plays a more central was led by job gains in pro-

fessional and business services at 5,600 jobs; 4,500 in
education and health services; 1,500 in retail trade;
1,300 in leisure and hospitality; 1,200 in financial activities; 800 in transportation,
warehousing and utilities;
and 100 in mining and logging.
Some industries, though,
saw job losses. Wallace said
construction continues to
bleed jobs, losing 1,500 in
January. Manufacturing lost
700, information 600, government 600, other services

500 and wholesale trade 100.
About 338,000 people in
Washington were unemployed and looking for work
in December, and 245,225
people received unemployment benefits the same
month, officials said.
As of February, more than
40,000
people
have
exhausted all of their unemployment claims.
But Wallace said that on a
weekly basis, unemployment
claims have dropped 12 percent since last year and 30
percent since 2009.

CLALLAM BAY — Clallam Bay water customers
who had service restored
Tuesday night must now
boil their water, or use bottled water, until test results
show the water is safe.
Clallam County Public
Utility District customers
east of the Breakwater Inn
lost water service between

about 4 a.m. and 8 p.m.
Tuesday after a water main
broke.
PUD
spokesman
Michael Howe said the
repair, originally expected
to be completed at 5 p.m.,
took longer than expected
because of the depth of the
pipe. He did not know why
the pipe broke.
Howe said 130 homes
and 30 commercial custom-

ers were affected.
Clallam Bay residents
who have had water service
restored are urged to boil
their water or use bottled
water for cooking, drinking,
making ice and brush teeth,
the state Department of
Health said.
“The utility must disinfect and flush the waterlines and have the water
tested for bacteria,” the

health advisory read.
Test results will take 18
hours, at minimum, “so
we’re hoping they’re back
by Thursday,” Howe said.
Tap water should be
brought to a rolling boil for
one minute to kill germs.
The PUD said it also is
important to conserve
water.
The PUD went door to
door posting information

about the boil-water health
advisory.
The outage did not affect
Sekiu or the Clallam Bay
Correctional Facility.
“I know the PUD called
all of the customers that
were on that line,” Howe
said.
“We did a reverse 9-1-1
deal.”
A flashing electronic
sign and message board at

Clallam Bay High School
alerted residents of the outage. Classes were canceled
because of the outage.
For more information,
visit www.clallampud.net
or phone 360-452-9771 or
800-542-7859.

________
Reporter Rob Ollikainen can be
reached at 360-417-3537 or at rob.
ollikainen@peninsuladailynews.
com.

Briefly . . .
High winds
expected
today

The Associated Press

Air Force Second Lt. Noel Davis-Carroll visits the grave of her brother, Staff Sgt. Timothy P. Davis,
who died in Afghanistan in 2009. The grave is in Montesano in Grays Harbor County.

Nurse inspired to join Air Force
By Steven Friederich

The (Aberdeen) Daily World

Got soldiers to safety

To Afghanistan

When enemy fighters
swarmed his unit, Tim called
for air support and helped
his brothers in arms fight to
safety.
At one point, he was dragging a soldier who had been
fatally shot, refusing to leave
him behind.
Between Nov. 13, 2008, to
when he died Feb. 20, 2009,
he participated in more than
80 combat operations and
processed more than 300
joint tactical air requests for
assistance “with 100 percent
effectiveness,” according to a
statement from the Air Force.
He received a second
Bronze Star for his efforts.
He died when a vehicle he

The plan is to go to
Afghanistan in May 2012, if
not earlier.
She will keep a bag
packed and be ready to be
called on 24 hours’ notice.
She will also have to keep
her training current every 90
days.
Her stay in Afghanistan
would be for four to six
months.
She’s a second lieutenant
now, and by May, she’ll be a
first lieutenant with an eye
toward captain in two years.
She said she’s young
enough that she very well
may want to stay in the
Reserve for the next 20 years
and work her way up to colo-

nel.
Her husband of six years,
Warren Carroll, says he is
understanding and very supportive.
Together, they have a
home in Des Moines.
“I don’t want other people
to have to go through what
we went through,” Noel said.
“If I can go over there to
prevent a small part of that
happening to another family,
I think it would make me feel
better,” she said.
Her mom and dad are
both obviously nervous about
Noel’s involvement with the
Air Force, given what happened to Tim.
But both are very proud
and offer nothing but encouraging words.
“It’s going to be hard on us
when your child is in danger,
but what she wants to do is
very honorable, to serve her
country,” Sheldon said.
“There’s a lot of mixed
emotions with me,” Noel’s
father said.
“It’s a rare individual that
can go through everything
she’s gone through and to
come out on top of it
“She’s going right into the
mouth of a lion where I lost a
child.
“And knowing that’s the
place your child flew out of
and she’s going to be going
into that same air base, it’s
more meaningful.”

Fuel cleanup done
FORKS — Cleanup of a
large diesel fuel spill on
Hoh tribal land finished
Tuesday, but a nearby wetland will be monitored for
another week.
The last of contaminated soil has been
removed, and the wetland
appears to be clean, said
state Department of Ecology spokeswoman Kim
Schmanke.
Cowlitz Clean Sweep,
hired by Pettit Oil, will
continue to monitor the
wetland, about 25 miles
south of Forks, for contamination, she said.
Both lanes of U.S. Highway 101, where the spill
occurred, are open,
Schmanke said.
Up to 4,600 gallons of
fuel spilled from the trailer
of a Pettit Oil truck when
it drove into a ditch last
Wednesday.
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was traveling in encountered
a hidden explosive device on
the road, the same day he
coordinated an air attack
that likely saved the lives of
several military personnel.
He was awarded a second
Purple Heart.
He was 28 when he died,
leaving behind a young son
and wife, who both live in
Spokane now, as well as his
siblings, Ben and Noel, and
his mom, Sally Sheldon of
Aberdeen, and dad, Mike
Davis of Ocean Shores.
As a flight nurse, Noel,
who happens to be 28 now,
said she hopes to be in a position to save lives.

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ABERDEEN — After
climbing a mountain with
50 pounds of gear on her
back, eating bugs and skinning a rabbit, Noel DavisCarroll said she couldn’t
help but think of her
brother, a survivalist with
the Air Force.
It
was
two years
ago
that
Montesano
native Tim
Davis, a special forces
airman with
the
23rd Tim Davis
Special Tactics Squadron in Florida,
died following a combat
mission in Afghanistan.
His sister, Noel, a graduate of Aberdeen High School,
has spent the past year
training as a member of the
Air Force Reserve so that
she can follow his footsteps
back to the Middle East.
All during training, Noel
said Tim was on her mind.
“I feel like he’s with me a
lot,” she said, standing over
his grave at Wynooche
Cemetery near Montesano
a few days before the anniversary of his death.
“When it was really
hard, I felt he was there
with me. And it gave me
strength thinking of him.”
Noel will be a flight
nurse, healing wounded soldiers in transit on C-17s.
She had always felt a
calling to heal people and
has worked as a nurse in
the emergency room at
Highline Medical Center in
Burien since 2007.
But when Tim died
Feb. 20, 2009, Noel said, she
felt an instant desire to sign
up with the Air Force
Reserve and continue his
legacy.
“It’s been something I
was thinking about, but
when he died, it was something I knew I needed to
do,” she said.
Tim was a combat controller for the Air Force.
He often accompanied

teams of Green Berets and
served as the liaison
between ground forces and
the air support they often
relied upon.
That put him headfirst
into some intense combat
situations.
He was awarded a Purple Heart when he was
wounded by shrapnel from
an insurgent’s bomb.
As soon as he recovered
from the wound, he went
right back to Afghanistan.
Soon after, his entire
unit was awarded a Bronze
Star when his team was
searching for an insurgent
in a Taliban village.

FORKS — High winds
are forecast today on the
West End.
The National Weather
Service posted a high wind
warning Tuesday, an
upgrade from Monday’s posting of a high wind watch.
The warning is for Forks
and Neah Bay, as well as
Westport, Hoquiam and
Ocean Shores.
It will be in effect until
10 p.m. today.
Forecasters said a
strong front and deep lowpressure system will bring
“strong and potentially
damaging winds to the
Washington coast” today.
Sustained winds of 25 to
40 mph, with gusts of up to
60 mph, are possible, they
said.
Storm-force winds are
forecast for the waters off
the Olympic Peninsula
coast.

last month.
“This is a dangerous
precedent and should be
PORT ANGELES — The voted down,” Ahlgren said.
City Council removed the “It makes a mockery of the
local-level appeal of condi- law.”
tional shoreline development permits Tuesday, a State makes decision
move that cuts short an
City staff said they proappeal to the council of its
combined sewer overflow posed the change because
the state Department of
project.
The Port Angeles City Ecology will make the final
Council voted 5-2 to amend decision on the permit,
the appealing process, with which was approved last
council members Max month by the city’s PlanMania and Cherie Kidd ning Commission, and that
they are following the counopposed.
City Attorney Bill Bloor cil’s desire to no longer hear
said after the decision that appeals.
The council directed
the rule change is not retroactive but does apply to staff members in January
pending appeals of condi- to seek hiring a hearings
tional shoreline permits, examiner to handle all
such as the one filed by the appeals other than those of
Olympic Environmental conditional shoreline perCouncil and Port Angeles mits.
Ahlgren, who said an
resident Tyler Ahlgren
Peninsula Daily News

appeal will likely be filed to
the state Shoreline Hearings Board once Ecology
rules on the permit, and the
environmental group are
opposed to the city’s plans
to use a nearly 5-milliongallon tank to store
untreated sewage and
stormwater that would otherwise overflow into Port
Angeles Harbor during
heavy rain.

Not superfluous
Mania and Kidd said
they doubted whether a
hearing of the appeal by the
council would really be useless.
“I don’t consider this process superfluous,” Mania
said.
Said Kidd: “I just feel
as a City Council member,
I have a responsibility
to hear the appeals of

the citizens.”
Council members who
voted for the change said
they agree with city staff
that the local-level appeal
has little use for these permits since the state has the
final say.
They also said they
think it’s better for a hearings examiner to handle
these issues.
Deputy Mayor Don
Perry said handling the
Nippon boiler appeal in
December made him feel
uncomfortable.
“I don’t want to go
through that again,” he
said.
Said Mayor Dan Di
Guilio: “It’s not being
uncomfortable that concerns me . . . it’s the technical aspect of the information. I don’t feel qualified to
really understand it.”
Ahlgren said he agrees

with the council that such to the state agency.
appeals should be heard by
But he questioned how
a hearings examiner rather much weight Ecology would
than the council members. give such a decision.
“They don’t make their
Local-level appeal
decisions based on that,”
But he said he believes Bloor said.
there needs to be a local“They make their decilevel appeal, which is less sions based on statewide
costly and time-consuming issues.”
then taking the issue to the
The
policy
change
state Shoreline Hearings adopted by the council only
Board.
Port Angeles resident applies to conditional shoreJanet Marx also spoke line permits, which are the
only permits that Ecology
against the change.
Bloor said there was no approves, he said.
Bloor said staff will have
reason to wait until the
appeal is heard by the coun- a proposal to hire a hearcil before making the ings examiner to handle
change because Ecology has other local-level appeals in
the final say anyway.
about a month.
He did acknowledge that
________
the council could side with
the appellants and direct
Reporter Tom Callis can be
the Planning Commission reached at 360-417-3532 or at
to change its ruling, which tom.callis@peninsuladailynews.
acts as a recommendation com.

Adult homes get attention in Legislature
By Manuel Valdes
The Associated Press

OLYMPIA — The state
Senate approved several bills
Tuesday night that stemmed
from investigative projects
by local journalism organizations.
The bills now move to the
state House for consideration
there.
Bills must pass both the
House and Senate before
they can be signed into law
by Gov. Chris Gregoire.
Senators approved unanimously a bill that further
defines financial exploitation

of senior citizens, a measure
that prime sponsor state
Sen. Karen Keiser, D-Kent,
said was a small piece of a
proposed overhaul to longterm care of elderly adults.
She said the total package
of bills moving through the
Legislature was prompted by
a Seattle Times investigation
that found that adult-home
deaths from neglect occur at
strikingly higher rates than
comparable deaths at nursing homes.
She added that lawmakers are taking a closer look at
the system and the state’s

role in it.
Senators also unanimously approved a bill that
would order the Department
of Labor & Industries to create standards on how to handle chemotherapy drugs.
This past year, the independent nonprofit journalism outlet InvestigateWest
reported that nurses who
handled such drugs are
exposed to health problems.
Also Tuesday, senators
approved with little opposition a bill that would make a
company responsible for an
oil spill liable for the conse-

quences of the cleanup.
That measure differed
from a version passed in the
House, which included extra
contingency
planning
requirements for tank vessels and would require Ecology to request that the federal government contribute
to Washington’s caches of
relief equipment to ensure
the best possible response.
The House bill met opposition from the oil industry.
Both bills are being
brought to the Legislature
due to the massive BP oil
spill in the Gulf.

The Senate and House pharmacies to first-degree
bills will now need to be rec- robbery.
onciled.
State Rep. Jim Jacks,
D-Vancouver, spoke in supHouse activity
port from personal experiIn the House, lawmakers ence: His wife is a pharmaapproved more than two cist, and her pharmacy was
dozen bills, including one to robbed at gunpoint last year.
“It’s very easy for someenhance anti-robbery protections for pharmacies and one one to come in, show their
to remove the statute of limi- gun and ask for the ‘fast
tations on prosecuting sex movers,’” large bottles of pills
offenders accused of assault- that are frequently prescribed and can fetch a high
ing minors.
The pharmacy robbery price on the street. “It’s a
bill increases the penalty very high-risk situation.”
The House bills now move
level for “note-job” or “fingerin-the-pocket” robberies in to the Senate.

city limit.
The two will speak at a
meeting of the Clallam
County Democratic Club at
7 p.m. Saturday, April 9, in
Pioneer Park.
“The economic and environmental future of our city
is closely tied to the success
of Battelle,” Hays said in a
statement.
“It is a major employer of
skilled staff. An expansion of
the facility could only
enhance the professional
and educational mix in our
community.”
Discussions between the
city and the lab have been
going on for some time.

Critical issues in future
collaboration include funding for the infrastructure
needs, expansion of the facility and the addition of other
compatible, research-based
groups.
Prior to becoming director of the laboratory, Brandt
was responsible for the lab’s
environmental sustainability portfolio and major environmental projects.
He has developed and
managed environmental
research projects for government and industry for more
than 20 years.
Brandt received his bachelor’s degree from Oregon

State University and his
doctorate in zoology from
Duke University.
Hays, who was elected
mayor of Sequim in 2010, is
an architect who has lived
in Sequim for more than 25
years. He holds degrees from
the University of Washington.

Burton Community Center,
308 E. Fourth St.
The Port Angeles event
is part of a nationwide
effort that has been conducted in more than 250
cities across the United
States with the goal of ending homelessness.
Services at the one-stop
event include housing referrals and placement,
employment services, medical care, mental health and
substance-abuse care,
insurance benefits advice
and enrollment, haircuts,
nutritious food, giveaways
and clothing, legal services,
veterans services and pet
care.
Bus rides to the event
are free from anywhere in

Briefly . . .
Democratic
Club to meet
in April
SEQUIM — Mayor Ken
Hays and Charles Brandt,
director of the Marine Sciences Laboratory at the
Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory, in April will discuss the possible expansion
of the lab, road, sewer and
water infrastructure
improvements and the
potential annexation of the
lab’s facilities on Sequim
Bay into the Sequim

Death Notices
Mark Wilton Burns
Jan. 1, 1922 — Feb. 25, 2011

Mark Wilton Burns died
in his Brinnon home at age
89.
Services:
Monday,
March 7, at 10 a.m., graveside inurnment at Holyrood
Catholic Cemetery, 205 NE
205th. St., Shoreline.
Kosec Funeral Home,
Port Townsend, is in charge
of arrangements.
www.kosecfuneralhome.com

J.C. Burris
June 25, 1926 — Feb. 26, 2011

J.C. Burris died in Life
Care Center of Port
Townsend at age 84.
His obituary will be published later.
Services:
Tuesday,
March 8, at 11:30 a.m.,
graveside committal with
military honors at Tahoma
National Cemetery, 18600
SE 240th St., Kent; Friday,
March 11, at 1 p.m., memorial at San Juan Baptist
Church, 1704 Discovery
Road, Port Townsend.
Kosec Funeral Home,
Port Townsend, is in charge
of arrangements.
www.kosecfuneralhome.com

frey S. Cormier died in Port
Angeles. He was 87.
Services: At a later
time, private family service.
Drennan-Ford Funeral
Home, Port Angeles, is in
charge of arrangements.
www.drennanford.com

Sequim resident Katie B.
Schmuck died of age-related
causes at age 96. Her obituary will be published later.
Services: Friday, March
4, at 11 a.m., graveside committal in Mount Angeles
Memorial Park, U.S. Highway 101 and Monroe Road,
Port Angeles, followed with
a memorial service and
reception at 1 p.m., at
Sequim Valley Funeral
Chapel, 108 W. Alder,
Sequim.

Longtime Port Townsend
resident Howard Carr Reid
died in Life Care Center at
age 97.
His obituary will be published later.
Services: Private interment will take place at Laurel Grove Cemetery, Port
Townsend.
Kosec Funeral Home,
Port Townsend, is in charge
of arrangements.
Edwin James “Ed”
www.kosecfuneralhome.com

Telling

Louise R. Sadilek
Jan. 21, 1927 — Feb. 27, 2011

Louise R. Sadilek died in
her Clallam Bay home at
age 84 of age-related causes.
Her obituary will be published later.
Services:
Saturday,
March 12, at 11:30 a.m.,
rosary in St. Thomas Catholic Church at Clallam Bay
Geoffrey S. Cormier
with memorial Mass followMay 9, 1923 — Feb. 25, 2011
ing at noon. The Rev. PatSequim resident Geof- rick O’Hogan will celebrate.

June 13, 1923 — Feb. 27, 2011

Edwin James “Ed” Telling died in his Port
Townsend home at age 87.
His obituary will be published later.
Services:
Sunday,
March 13, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at
the Port Townsend Elks
Lodge, 555 Otto St., Port
Townsend.
Kosec Funeral Home,
Port Townsend, is in charge
of arrangements.
www.kosecfuneralhome.com

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PORT ANGELES — A
gathering of resources for
those who are homeless or
at risk of losing their
homes is planned
March 17.
The second annual Clallam County Project Homeless Connect will be from
9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Vern

Death and Memorial Notice
Gertrude Joy
Stock

2011, in Bellingham,
Washington.
She will be laid to rest
next to her husband, Lafe,
at Mount Angeles Memorial Park in Port Angeles.
A memorial service will
be held Saturday, March
5, 2011, at 2 p.m. at the

Clallam Bay Presbyterian
Church, 15 Eighth St.,
Clallam Bay. A reception
luncheon will follow.
You may view photos
of Gertrude and share
memories with the family
at www.JernsFuneral
Chapel.net.

Death and Memorial Notice
Richard Leroy
Huff

Ply for a short time. He
worked at Puget Sound
Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington, where
he was known to his
friends as Digger, until his
retirement in 1991.
Richard loved motorcycles, hiking, camping, and
was an avid writer and
pool player.
Richard is survived by
his ex-wife, Leslie Huff,
“the love of his life”; sons,
Branden Huff and Brett
Huff both of Port Orchard;
grandsons, Gavin, Aidan,
and Collin Huff; sisters,

May 27, 1945
February 15, 2011
Former Port Angeles
resident Richard L. Huff
passed away at his home
in Port Orchard, Washington, on February 15,
2011.
Richard was born in
Port Angeles on May 27,
1945. He graduated from
Port Angeles High School
in 1963.
He served a tour in the
Navy, then worked at Pen

Patricia Crookshank of
Tacoma, Washington, and
Marjorie Brown of Port
Orchard; and brothers,
Lowell Huff of Vermont
and Dan Huff of Port
Angeles.
Richard was preceded
in death by his parents,
Agnes Rosin and Glen
Huff.
A celebration of life will
be held Saturday, March
5, 2011, from 1 to 4 p.m.
at the Parkwood Community Center, 3045
Madrona Drive SE, Port
Orchard.

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Homeless services

Clallam or Jefferson
County. Just say, “Take me
to Vern Burton Center.”
Last year’s Project
Homeless Connect drew
more than 650 people,
including homeless and atrisk individuals, service
providers and volunteers.
Funding for Project
Homeless Connect comes
from the Clallam County
Homeless Fund and
through community donations and sponsorships.
For more information on
how to sponsor or donate
your time or services, phone
Jill Dole of the county
Homelessness Task Force
at 360-565-2608 or e-mail
jdole@co.clallam.wa.us.
Peninsula Daily News

What to do after reaching the top?
RECENTLY, SOMEONE
ASKED me how on earth I could
kill a wild steelhead.
This was in
response to a
Pat
photo of a
27-pound buck Neal
steelhead in
my column last
week (“A Challenging Ride
Yields
Bounty”).
The fish was
caught by Rick
Perry of
Sequim while
floating the Sol
Duc River last Groundhog Day.
We were fishing plugs with
20-pound test line, which some
folks might claim is a little heavy,
but I ain’t one of them.
Once a steelhead is hooked,
they can try to snag the line on
every rock and stick in the river
like they have them all memorized.

It’s sick to watch a big, bright
steelhead enter a sunken rain
forest to tangle the line in the
limbs.
Your only chance is to give the
fish slack line and hope the fish
leaves the brush-pile on its own
without tangling.
This is often futile.
You watch the fish roll away
down the surface of the middle of
the river as your entire spool of
line is shredded until it breaks.
When Rick’s fish jumped, I
wished we had stainless steel
cable for line.
Just lucky we were in a big,
deep hole in the river with only
one downed tree soaking in it.
I crashed the boat into the
tree to make enough noise to
scare the fish back out into the
river.
It’s an old guide trick, (or
excuse) that actually worked for
once.
When we finally got that fish
in the net, Rick could not believe

his luck.
He’d quit fishing 30 years ago
in South Carolina when he
reeled in a water moccasin.
Since retiring to the North
Olympic Peninsula, he started
fishing again.
Then he caught a fish that
anglers lie awake nights dreaming about.
It was the fish of a lifetime —
heck, 20 lifetimes — but who’s
counting? Rick could not believe
his luck.
“I’ll never catch a steelhead
bigger than that,” Rick said.
“Not fishing with me you
won’t,” I told him.
His career as a steelhead fisherman was over.
A friend once explained how
he wished he never caught a
steelhead that big, say a
30-pounder, because he would
have, “nothing left to live for.”
This is my story. Since catching my first steelhead in 1968, I
have caught several over 30

Peninsula Voices
Boldt defended
The “Boldt’s impact”
letter (Feb. 25-26 PDN)
and others recently blame
the lack of salmon in the
Elwha and Dungeness on
the Boldt decision (1974),
in other words treaty
Indian gillnet fishing.
This “blame game”
ignores some realities and
science.
Indians fished the
Elwha long before the
dams’ construction.
From what we know,
salmon were abundant
until then.
The dams blocked
70-plus miles of salmon
habitat, leaving only five
miles below Elwha Dam.
Thinking this would
have no impact on salmon
seems ludicrous to me.
The first impacts
wouldn’t have been noticed
for perhaps four to five
years. Impacts may not
have been noted for sometime after that because
fishermen moved to
streams not yet showing
human degradation (e.g.
logging practices).
Sport fishing wasn’t
really popular on the North
Olympic Peninsula until
after World War II, somewhat limiting casual observation of salmon abundance for years after dam
construction.
Viewing large numbers
of salmon in the Dungeness (no dams) two years
before the Boldt decision
might result from a good
hatchery return, location
and timing of viewing.
Blaming reduced
salmon runs on only Indian
fishing ignores non-Indian
impacts in the Dungeness
watershed (e.g. logging,
mining, roads, population
increase, stormwater runoff, water withdrawal,
water pollution, etc.)

I would like to give a
major bravo to the lone
police officer juggling the
disastrous traffic fiasco at
the Port Angeles Walmart
(Kolonels Way) intersection
during the tragic accident
on the Morse Creek grade
Wednesday afternoon
(Feb. 23).
He was an “army of one”
as he carried out his
daunting task like a wellorchestrated dance routine.
He remained pleasant
under the most trying conditions, kept all lanes of
traffic under control to the
best of his ability and was
most helpful under a flood
of questions (even politely
apologizing to drivers for
the lengthy delays).
In addition to his other
feats, he successfully (and
single-handedly) shoved a
car into forward motion
that lost traction at the
stoplight, which would
have caused worse congestion had it remained
stranded.
It really was impressive
to watch him maintain
order in the middle of that
snarled, slushy mess.
This officer (who
appeared completely
soaked) was courageous
beyond words working in
unimaginable weather

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Pat Neal is a North Olympic
Peninsula fishing guide and “wilderness gossip columnist.”
Neal can be reached at 360683-9867 or e-mail at patnealwildlife@yahoo.com.
Pat’s column appears here
every Wednesday.

and e-mail
tive, I cannot read more
than two paragraphs of her
vitriol.
She as well as Collins
probably has valid points
to make.
I just don’t care to wade
through the garbage to discover what they might be.
Thursday columnist Cal
Thomas and Monday columnist Thomas Friedman
are much more palatable
and less bombastic sources
of information and opinion.
I can read them even
when I don’t agree with
them.
Roger Slagle,
Sequim

One of the finest

IT SHOULD BE so easy: Buy toothpaste
But few shopping trips are more bewildering.
An explosion of specialized pastes and gels brag
about their powers to whiten teeth, reduce plaque,
curb sensitivity and fight gingivitis, sometimes all
at the same time.
Add in all the flavors and sizes, plus ever-rising
prices, and the simple errand turns into sensory
overload.
Manufacturers acknowledge the problem and are
putting the brakes on new product introductions.
Last year, 69 new toothpastes hit store shelves,
down from 102 in 2007, according to market-research
firm Mintel International Group.
The Wall Street Journal

n

Our readers’ letters, faxes

threats are the sincerest form of
flattery.
I told Rick to turn the steelhead loose. It had an intact adipose fin of a native.
The regulations said we had
to release native fish.
Then we noticed the fish had
a clipped ventral fin, indicating it
came from the Snider Creek
Hatchery.
Rick kept the fish.
These days, he calls me to ask
about the fishing once in a while,
but he knows there’s no point.
The Groundhog Day steelhead
saw his shadow, and winter is far
from over.
________

The population grew by
52.4 percent in Sequim
between 2000 and 2010
(“Peninsula Population On
The Rise,” Feb. 25-26 PDN).
It’s grown much more
than that since the early
’70s, when the writer of
“Boldt’s impact” made his
observation.
Also ignored is setting
harvest levels for hatchery
fish, which are too high for
wild fish.
Bob Vreeland,
Port Angeles

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360-417-3500

pounds.
Imagine a life with no hope or
dreams of the future.
You can fish, but it won’t do
you any good. You’ll never catch a
bigger one.
It didn’t matter that I turned
the biggest fish loose back in the
river for brood stock.
My fishing career was over.
I haven’t caught another
30-pound steelhead since sometime in the 1990s.
Since then, I have tried to
help others learn from my mistakes.
Rick’s fish looked close to 30
pounds.
Steelheading isn’t like other
sports.
For example if you shoot a
hole-in-one in golf, other golfers
will want to congratulate you.
If you catch the biggest steelhead, that’s one less fish for the
rest of us.
Other fishermen want to kill
you. Out on the river, death

‘Christian duty’?
trying to keep everyone
safe until the grade could
be reopened.
Road conditions were
highly dangerous, yet he
clearly went above and
beyond without any concerns for his own safety.
This anonymous officer
is definitely one of Port
Angeles’ finest.
Felicia Volkman,
Port Angeles

Roll back spending
The federal government’s fiscal irresponsibility has us on a collision
course with financial disaster.
Having successfully surpassed Portugal, measured
by national debt/gross
domestic product, we are
now speedily approaching
Greece and Italy.
There is not much time
left to change course before
our economy and the dollar
go over the brink.
Yet, the solution is not
rocket science.
We all know that if we
can’t afford everything we
want, we must make do
with less or risk personal
or business financial
disaster.
It is time for the federal
government to learn the
same lesson.
Projected 2012 revenue
is $2.63 trillion.
If we roll back expenditures to 2008 levels, or
$2.90 trillion, the 2012 deficit is reduced from
$1.1 trillion to $270 billion.
The beneficiaries of the
spending increases since
2008 would complain, but
overall, the level of services
the federal government
provided in 2008 was quite
adequate, if not ample.
To close the remaining
$270 billion gap, one could
start by eliminating the

federal Departments of
Energy and Education,
which cost $90 billion
annually.
The country ran quite
well for more than 200
years since the Declaration
of Independence before
President Carter created
these departments.
An across-the-board 10
percent cut in all remaining expenditure items,
except defense, veterans
affairs and servicing the
national debt, would
amount to $189 billion,
more than necessary to
balance the budget.
In reality, some budget
items could be protected,
with deeper cuts in others.
This solution would be
painful for many, but the
alternative is infinitely
worse.
Kaj Ahlburg,
Port Angeles

GOP economics
Republican “free market” economics is ominously reminiscent of the
economics theories of 19thcentury England, where
the theory of “let it alone”
holds that the welfare of all
can be achieved only by the
free operation of economic
laws; that the government
must maintain a policy of
strict noninterference and
leave each person to pursue his or her own private
interests.
For the laboring classes,
the results were catastrophic, with inadequate
wages, long hours of work
under appalling conditions
that exploited the weak
and destroyed body and
soul.
Workers were prevented
from unionizing by law.
Most suffering was
largely confined to the poor
and working classes, while
the landed classes, the

industrialists and many of
the merchants prospered.
Free-market and supply-side economics did not
work then, and it will not
work now without governmental restrictions.
The very definition of
insanity is doing the same
thing over and over, hoping
for different results.
Jerelyn Allen,
Sequim

Both sides shown
Referring to the Feb. 24
letter, “Show both sides,”
the PDN does a great job of
presenting both sides of the
spectrum as well as a good
swath down the middle.
The Feb. 22 columns
referred to by the writer
[“Cairo Moves To Madison,
Indeed” by Paul Krugman,
and “Up With NASCAR,
Down With Big Bird” by
Gail Collins] were indeed a
bit biased.
However, compare that
with Michelle Malkin, who
appears every Friday.
As a moderate conserva-

What do right-to-lifers
and the Tea Party have in
common other than the
Republican Party?
It is as if the Republicans have interpreted their
Christian duty as those
most responsible for meting out punishment for
original sin by making sure
children and their caretakers have no jobs or supportsystems in place.
If one believes people
should be fruitful and multiply by blocking birth control and abortion, then they
should be responsible for
the welfare of the children
after they are born.
It is time for the religious right and their greedridden Republican cohorts
to put up or shut up.
The IRS should have a
line on tax returns
whereby those deciding
they are against birth control and abortion should be
levied an additional tax.
Let’s see how many
check that line on their tax
returns.
Cheryl Nash,
Port Angeles

Business bafflegab
LUCY KELLAWAY OF The Financial Times
spotted the following new corporate jargon:
n “Reading containers” (books).
n “Bank-initiated departures” (firings).
n “We invested in several key talent additions”
(hirings).
n “In a delivery window for new growth.”
n “A turning point in attacking the fungus of
‘boiler plate.’”
n “The up-skilling of the work force.”
n “Facing the future we [China] are standing at
a new historic starting point.”

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Peninsula Daily News

Boy & Girls’ Sequim unit gets big cut
By Jeff Chew

Peninsula Daily News

SEQUIM — The Sequim
unit of the Boys & Girls
Clubs of the Olympic Peninsula will feel the pain of a
steep loss of city funding for
the club’s teen program, a
club leader said Tuesday.
The City Council, after
long debate during several
meetings since late last
year, approved $12,500 for
the club’s teen program
Monday night.
The amount is a dramatic reduction.
Jerry Sinn, the Boys &
Girls Clubs’ board president, said the council’s decision was unexpected in
light of the fact that the city
allocated the club $60,000
in each of the past two years
and $100,000 in 2008.
“It means we lost from
the city about 40 [percent]
to 50 percent of our funding
for the teen evening program,” Sinn said.
“We need to make that
up.”
He estimated it takes
about $90,000 to $100,000 a
year to run the teen evening program, which helps
at-risk teens stay in school
and even find higher education and workplace training.
The organization is gen-

Recommendations for transportation funds
By Jeff Chew

meeting for consideration.
Recommendations were for:
■ A Third Avenue sidewalk
SEQUIM — Sidewalks and a
leading from Washington Street
traffic signal were among the top
downtown to Helen Haller Elemenrecommendations for city transportary School on Fir Street.
tation benefit district dollars this
■ A traffic signal at Fir Street
year.
The recommendations came late and North Sequim Avenue.
■ More disabled sidewalk
Monday night from Sequim City
ramps.
Council members, acting as the
■ More bike racks.
Sequim Transportation Benefit
The Transportation Benefit DisDistrict Board.
trict Board allocates its projects for
“We need to make our streets
funding each year.
and sidewalks safe,” said Mayor
The 2011 available unobligated
Pro Tem Laura Dubois, adding that
funds the district has to allocate is
sidewalks are needed to lead to
$100,000.
schools.
Any 2011 funds in excess of the
City Manager Steve Burkett
$100,000 were committed in 2010
said city staff would take the disto repay a loan from the city for the
trict recommendations and figure
completion of the connector road
out cost estimates, bringing back
that information at a future council planned between Grant and West
Peninsula Daily News

erating grant dollars and
has a March 19 fundraiser
planned at 7 Cedars Casino
through The Promise of
Hope Foundation.
“We’re just going to go
around with donors and try
to develop some private
sources to provide for the
teen program,” Sinn said.
The council approved a
total of $70,000 in health
and human services chari-

Washington streets.
The district’s list of priorities for
2011 will be implemented by the
city through an interlocal agreement.
City Public Works Director Paul
Haines said he was working with
the Sequim High School industrial
arts department to help the city
build up to 30 bike racks.
Mayor Ken Hays urged smaller,
less expensive transportation
improvement projects, such as
crossing flags for the downtown
core.
Haines said the Sunrise Rotary
Club was interested in fundraising
for its flags project.

________
Sequim-Dungeness Valley Editor Jeff
Chew can be reached at 360-681-2391 or at
jeff.chew@peninsuladailynews.com.

sen also voted against the
final allocations, reiterating
that he does not believe tax
dollars should go to charitable organizations.
The council’s final vote of
approval came after City
Councilman Bill Huizinga
attempted to get the clubs
$39,000. His motion failed
for lack of a second.
In voting for the recommended allocations, City
Councilman Ted Miller
said, “We need to encourage
corporations to donate, not
the council.”
He recommended that
funding be limited to the
senior activity center, the
Dungeness Valley clinic and
the Boys & Girls Clubs,
with the latter receiving the
majority of the funding.
His motion failed.
Mayor Pro Tem Laura
Dubois called the original
United Way proposal, which
finally passed council muster, “fairer and more balanced.”
The Sequim unit of the
Boys & Girls Clubs is at 400
W. Fir St.
The Mount Angeles Unit
is at 2620 S. Francis St.,
Port Angeles.

United Way of Clallam
County, which recommended
the
funding
amounts after the City
Council asked for the agency’s advice, also charged a
$1,000 administrative fee.
Councilman Don Hall
voted against the alloca________
tions, saying he wanted the
Sequim-Dungeness Valley Edimajority to go to the Boys & tor Jeff Chew can be reached at
Girls Clubs.
360-681-2391 or at jeff.chew@
Councilman Erik Erich- peninsuladailynews.com.

78-year-old
man missing
By Rob Ollikainen
Peninsula Daily News

afternoon. He does not carry
cash.
“That means to me he
never made it to a store,”
Hudson said.
Hudson believes her
brother is somewhere in the
greater Port Angeles-Sequim
area because she had about
50 miles’ worth of gas in the
Jeep.
She speculated that Goss
was headed to the Sequim
area because the family often
travels in that direction.
Hudson said Goss has
never taken her keys or left
the house in the middle of
the night.
“I know he got a sandwich
out at about 2 o’clock,” Hudson said.
“That’s the last I heard
from him. But the next morning at 9 o’clock, the car was
gone.”
Hudson said Goss has
weak joints and would not be
able to get up if he fell. She
said her brother is lucid
around his family but may be
confused around strangers.
Goss sold his home in the
Sacramento, Calif., area 21⁄2
years ago to live with his
sister.
“He has a nice life here,”
Hudson said.
Anyone with information
on Goss’ whereabouts is
asked to phone the Clallam
County Sheriff’s Office at
360-417-2459, Detective
Stacy Sampson at 360-4172576 or Detective Sgt. Lyman
Moores at 360-417-2388.

PORT ANGELES — The
Clallam County Sheriff’s
Office has issued a missing/
endangered person alert for
a 78-year-old Clallam County
man who left his sister’s
house early Monday morning and hasn’t been seen
since.
Robert T.
Goss, who
goes by Bob,
was
last
seen wearing a red
pullover
sweatshirt
and navy- Goss
blue ball cap
emblazoned with a “BERLIN” logo.
He is 6 feet 3 inches tall,
weighs 160 pounds and has
short gray hair and brown
eyes.
He was driving a silver
2006 Jeep Cherokee with the
Washington state license
plate number of 161 VUO.
Family members said
Goss has early-stage dementia and rarely drives.
He lives with his sister,
Mary Ann Hudson, at 149
Finn Hall Road, between
Port Angeles and Sequim.
Goss took Hudson’s keys
off a hook in the kitchen
without waking anyone or
the dog.
“I know he went out to
buy a Coke,” Hudson said.
Hudson said she rations
out Coca Cola in her house
________
because her brother is so
Reporter Rob Ollikainen can be
fond of it.
reached at 360-417-3537 or at rob.
Goss had not used his ollikainen@peninsuladailynews.
debit card as of Tuesday com.

Chris Tucker/Peninsula Daily News

Hackey

sacking

Three-year hackey sack veteran Zane Johnson, right, jumps in the air to kick the hackey
sack while playing the game with Mike McHenry, left, and Rodney McClurg outside the
Pirate Union Building on the Peninsula College campus in Port Angeles on Tuesday.
McHenry said he’s been playing hackey sack over the past eight years, and McClurg said
he had only played the game for two days.

Effective Feb. 21 thru Mar. 14

PA fugitive caught
By Tom Callis

Peninsula Daily News

Arrested on warrant
They arrested Worley
solely on the warrant, said
Viada, who didn’t know why
they made contact with him.
Worley will be transferred
to Clallam County jail, but it
was not known Tuesday
when.
Port Angeles police
arrested Worley on Sept. 4,
2009, after the family of a
12-year-old girl reported that
Worley repeatedly had sexual contact with her.

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Seattle police arrested a
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Sunday 17 months after he
fled from Clallam County.
Larry Marshall Worley
III, 28, failed to appear at his
trial in late September 2009
on five counts of seconddegree child rape and 10
counts of second-degree child
molestation.
A bench warrant was
issued.
Two Seattle bicycle officers discovered Worley had a
warrant for his arrest after
contacting him while patrol-

ling a neighborhood, said
Port Angeles Detective Jason
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Texas defensive back Curtis
Brown makes a catch as he
runs a drill at the NFL football
scouting combine in
Indianapolis on Tuesday. The
combine workouts are being
conducted under a cloud with
the labor agreement set to
expire Thursday night.

NFL
lockout
a day
away
By Howard Fendrich
The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — With time
running out on the NFL’s labor contract, one team owner — the New
York Giants’ John Mara — joined
mediated negotiations between the
league and players Tuesday, and the
union won a key court ruling about
TV contract money.
The sides met for six hours Tuesday. NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith and
his group left shortly before 8 p.m.
— 52 hours before the current collective bargaining agreement
expires.
Mara, the first owner to attend
the federal mediation; Atlanta Falcons president Rich McKay, chairman of the league’s competition
committee; and Washington Redskins general manager Bruce Allen
were among those accompanying
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell
for the eighth day of bargaining
overseen by George Cohen.
He is the director of the Federal
Mediation and Conciliation Service,
a U.S. government agency.
“I don’t think you could have a
greater sense of urgency,” Jeff Pash,
the league’s lead labor negotiator,
said on his way into the meeting.
“We all know what the calendar
is, and we all know what’s at stake
for everybody.
“And that’s why we’re here. We’re
going to be here as long as it takes
and work as hard as we can work to
get something done.”
“What’s the word we’re using
right now? ‘Cautiously optimistic,’”
Seattle Seahawks guard Chester
Pitts said after attending the first
3½ hours of Tuesday’s negotiations.
“We’re making a point to go into
it doing all we can to do things the
right way, and hopefully we get a
deal done.”
Asked about Mara’s presence,
Pitts said: “He’s a businessman, and
businessmen like to make money.
“So sometimes you’ve got to come,
make sure you’re hovering around,
make sure everything’s being done
to get a deal done. And I’m pretty
sure he’ll say he had that sense.”
Afterward, in keeping with
Cohen’s order to stay silent on the
mediation, neither the NFL nor the
union would discuss whether they
fared any better Tuesday than they
did during more than 40 hours of
meetings spread across seven previous days of mediation.
When that round ended Tuesday,
Cohen said the parties still had
“very strong differences” on the “allimportant core issues.”
Mediation will resume today,
when union president Kevin Mawae
is expected to be in Washington.
He has yet to sit in on this round
of talks.
Turn

to

NFL/B3

RENTON — Leon Washington is getting rewarded for
proving he could come back
from a gruesome, career-threatening broken leg.
The Seattle Seahawks and
Washington have agreed to a
new four-year contract after a
2010 season during which
Washington was in the discussions for comeback player of the
year.
Washington’s agent, Alvin
Keels, announced on Twitter
Tuesday morning that an agreement had been reached in principle between Washington and
the team.
The Seahawks confirmed
later Tuesday afternoon that
the deal had been finalized.
Washington came to Seattle
in a draft-day trade with the
New York Jets, but with plenty
of questions whether he could
return to the Pro Bowl form he
showed in New York.
Washington sustained a
compound fracture of the tibia
and fibula in his right leg during a Jets game at Oakland in
October 2009.
It didn’t take long for Washington to prove he was back.
If his sprinting touchdown
run during the preseason didn’t
show Washington still had his
burst, his welcome back came in
Week 3 against San Diego.
In Seattle’s 27-20 win over
the Chargers, Washington
returned two kickoffs for touchdowns, including a 101-yard
sprint to start the second half.
He finished that day with
The Associated Press
253 yards on kickoff returns,
nearly matching Seattle’s offen- Seattle running back Leon Washington carries against the Arizona Cardinals in
sive output of 271 yards.
Glendale, Ariz., on Nov. 14. Washington is getting rewarded for proving he could
Turn

to

come back from a gruesome, career-threatening broken leg. The Seahawks and

Hawks/B3 Washington have agreed to a new four-year contract.

Third-round tender on Mebane
Hawks, player try
for long-term deal
The Associated Press

“I don’t think we’ll ramp them up,
but everyone would like to have
something solid going into an
uncertain period. But we’ve agreed
to work toward a common goal.”

RENTON — The Seattle Seahawks
have placed an original round tender on
restricted free agent Brandon Mebane,
according to his agent.
Chuck Price said Tuesday the Seahawks
placed the tag on their starting defensive
tackle, but that both sides are working diligently toward getting a long-term deal done
to keep Mebane with the Seahawks even as
they bump against the possible expiration
of the current collective bargaining agreement later this week.
“I don’t think we’ll ramp them up, but
everyone would like to have something
solid going into an uncertain period,” Price
said.
“But we’ve agreed to work toward a com-

mon goal.”
Mebane has been a starter with the
Seahawks almost from the time he was
drafted in the third round out of California
in 2006.
The team did not respond to messages
about the designation being placed on
Mebane.
As a restricted free agent, Seattle would
receive a third-round pick if Mebane signed
elsewhere.
That doesn’t sound like it’ll happen.
While there remain major unknowns
about what a new collective bargaining
agreement might look like, Price said his
client is willing to pass up the idea of free

By Tim Booth

Chuck Price
Brandon Mebane’s agent

agency for the chance at long-term security
with the Seahawks.
“For Brandon, it’s ‘if my market value is
X and I can get it in Seattle, great,’” Price
said.
Mebane has started 53 of 59 career regular season games for the Seahawks, missing
four games this past season with a calf
injury.
Mebane had a career-high 40 tackles in
2009 and 5½ sacks in 2008, but was asked
to clog run lanes more than get to the quarterback last year.
Mebane made $1.1 million in base salary
last season as part of the original four-year
deal he signed coming out of California.
Price said the uncertainty around the
CBA has made negotiating difficult but
more from the team standpoint than the
individual.
“There are a lot of things they are uncertain of,” Price said.
“It’s hard to negotiate long term when
you don’t know what the CBA will state.”

PEORIA, Ariz. — Milton
Bradley says he’s not bothered
by having to compete for a
starting job.
A couple more days like
Tuesday and it won’t be much of
a contest.
Bradley drove in a pair of
runs and went 3 for 3 with two
singles and a double, leading
the Seattle Mariners to a 5-2
win over the Texas Rangers on
Tuesday.
“He’s really working hard, he
just needs to stay patient and
let the game come to him,” Mariners manager Eric Wedge said.
“I think he’s having a good
time. He’s enjoying himself, he’s

“He’s really working hard, he just needs to stay patient
and let the game come to him. I think he’s having a
good time. He’s enjoying himself, he’s enjoying his
teammates, I love his work ethic. Just want to see him
sustain that.”

tion, gave up three hits and
struck out three in two innings.
Notes: Rangers C Yorvit Torrealba was a late scratch from
the Texas lineup due to lower
back stiffness.

enjoying his teammates, I love
his work ethic.
“Just want to see him sustain
that.”

Saunders is competition
Michael Saunders, whom the
team has given previous chances
to take over the position, is
Bradley’s main competition in
left field.
Adam Kennedy and catcher
prospect Steven Baron hit solo
home runs for Seattle.
The Rangers scored two runs
in the third inning on an RBI

Rangers RHP Brandon Webb,
a former Cy Young Award winner who has dealt with injuries
the past two years, threw a
15-minute bullpen session Tuesday morning and got through it
with no problems.
“We’ll just keep running him
out there until that arm strength
comes back the way it should
come back,” Rangers manager
Ron Washington said.
Mariners CF Franklin Gutierrez, who’d been dealing with
Going for rotation spot
stomach problems, made his
Nate Robertson, trying to Mariners spring training debut
win a spot in the Mariners’ rota- and went 1 for 3.

groundout by David Murphy
and two-out double by Brian
Barden, then got two more in
the ninth on a two-run single
from Chris Davis.
Matt Harrison pitched two
innings for the Rangers and
gave up Kennedy’s homer.
“I kind of made a bad decision going in [with the count]
3-1, and he turned on it,” Harrison said.

Briefly . . .
Ladies golf
club looking
for members
SEQUIM — The Lady
Niners of Cedars at Dungeness Golf Course will be
starting their club season
on Thursday morning.
New members are welcome for the nine-hole club.
Players of all levels of
expertise are welcome to
participate.
Tee time is 10:30 a.m.
Players are asked to arrive
45 minutes early to review
rules and regulations.
For more information,
contact golf captain Pat
Charters at 360-681-8651.

Archery tourney
PORT ANGELES —
The Wapiti Bowmen
Archery Club will be hosting a Spring 3-D archery
shoot this weekend.
The tournament consists of 28 Safari targets
and 22 full-size 3-D animals set at marked distances.
Adult fees are $12 for
one day, or $20 for both.
Awards will be given for
all age groups in addition
to a raffle draw.
Tickets for the raffle are

$5 with all proceeds going
to the Wapiti Bowmen
Archery Club.
Registration is from 8
a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.
For more information on
the club or upcoming shoot,
contact Jameson Hawn at
wapitibowclub@gmail.com.

Klahhane action
SUMNER — The Klahhane level 5-7 gymnasts
competed in the “At the
Hop” Invitational Saturday.
Maya Wharton, competing in the 10-11 age group,
placed fourth all-around
with third place medals on
balance beam and floor
exercise.
Emily Giammalva was
fourth all-around in the
15-plus age group, claiming
second place on vault with
a score of 9.4.
Cassii Middlestead,
competing in the 10 and
under age group, scored 8.1
on the balance beam to
secure fourth place in her
division.
Danica Miller took first
on vault, fourth on floor,
and ninth all-around in the
11-year-old age group.
Haylee Ward and Laura
Rooney vaulted well while
Karli Gochnor led the
group on balance beam
with an 8.3.
Peninsula Daily News

Cassidy Coburn of Forks Middle School, left, reaches for the ball as Dawn Oliver of
Stevens Middle School in Port Angeles defends Tuesday in Forks where Stevens defeated
Forks 30-26. Stevens also took the seventh-grade game for a sweep.

Thunder sign Perkins to deal
The Associated Press

OKLAHOMA CITY —
Before even playing a game
with the Oklahoma City
Thunder, center Kendrick
Perkins signed an extension
Tuesday to stay with his
new team for a while.
Perkins joined the Thunder five days ago in a trade
with Boston, where he spent
the first seven years of his
career and won the 2008
NBA title.
Now, he’s due to make
about $36 million while
staying in Oklahoma City
through the 2014-15 season.
“It kind of felt like the
worst day of my life when I
got traded from the Cs, from
being there so long. But
when I got here, it kind of
took my mind away from
everything, I think, and

everything just kind of blew
me away,” Perkins said after
practice Tuesday. “It was
kind of the worst but best
day.”
Perkins said he was
attracted to stay in Oklahoma City because of similarities he sees to his Texas
hometown and by his first
impressions of the Thunder
as a “first-class” organization.
He would have become
an unrestricted free agent
at the end of the season, but
said he didn’t “want to take
anything for granted.”
“I’m a country boy. I’m
from Beaumont, Texas. I
don’t think it’s really hard
to please me,” Perkins said.
“I didn’t really have just
a crazy number in mind. We
met, we came to an agreement, that’s the most impor-

tant thing.”
Perkins was acquired
along with Nate Robinson
in exchange for Jeff Green,
Nenad Krstic and a future
first-round pick in a deal
completed at the league’s
trade deadline Thursday.
He played in 12 games
for Boston after returning
from a knee injury he sustained in Game 6 of the
NBA finals, but is expected
to miss as much as three
weeks with a left knee
sprain
The trade, along with a
deal that sent veteran Morris Peterson and D.J. White
to Charlotte for Nazr
Mohammed, cleared about
$2.5 million in cap space for
the Thunder this season
and Oklahoma City decided
to use it to sweeten its offer
to Perkins.

“The trades left us with
some flexibility underneath
the salary cap that we
looked at and felt like it
would be something that we
should explore and bring to
Kendrick and his representation,” general manager
Sam Presti said.
“We were fortunate that
that opportunity presented
itself.”
The 6-foot-10 Perkins
was the 27th overall pick in
the 2003 draft and has averaged 6.4 points and 6.1
rebounds over the course of
his career.
When the Lakers played
at Oklahoma City on Sunday, Kobe Bryant, who faced
the Celtics in the finals two
of the past three years,
called Perkins the “best lowpost defender we have in
the game.”

NFL: CBA runs out Thursday
Continued from B1
The CBA runs out at
midnight as Thursday
becomes Friday on the
East Coast, and the owners
could lock out the players
afterward.
The union could also
decertify — essentially,
declare itself out of the
business of representing
players.
The players would then
give up their rights under
labor law and take their
chances in court under
antitrust law.
Whatever happens this
week could cause the country’s most popular sport to
lose regular-season games
to a work stoppage for the
first time since 1987.
Or, perhaps, everything
could be resolved by management and labor in an
industry with revenues
topping $9 billion annually.
Buffalo Bills safety
George Wilson — who’s not
involved in the negotiations but is getting updates
from the union as his
team’s NFLPA representative — doesn’t expect a
new deal by the deadline.
“Everything I’m telling
my guys is: Prepare this
Friday for the start of a
lockout,” Wilson said.
“I certainly don’t believe
a deal will be reached by
Thursday midnight. That’s
what I feel in my heart.

“I have not received any
indication [from the union]
that we’re close to a deal.”
In a ruling Tuesday that
could have a significant
bearing on the talks, U.S.
District Court judge David
Doty in Minneapolis sided
with the union by overruling a special master’s Feb.
1 decision to reject the
NFLPA’s request that $4
billion in 2011 payments
from networks to the
league be placed in escrow
if there is a lockout.
Doty, who has jurisdiction over NFL labor matters, said there will be a
hearing to determine what
should happen to that
money.
The date of the hearing
wasn’t announced immediately.
The NFL played down
the importance of Doty’s
decision.
The union issued a
statement, calling it “irrefutable evidence that owners had a premeditated
plan to lock out players
and fans for more than two
years.”
As he left Tuesday’s
mediation, Indianapolis
Colts center Jeff Saturday
called Doty’s ruling a
“really good reversal.”
“I’m sure we’ll hear
more tonight,” Saturday, a
member of the NFLPA
executive committee, told
The Associated Press.

“But it sounds very
favorable.”
The union accused the
NFL of structuring TV contracts agreed to in 2009
and 2010 so owners would
be guaranteed money even
if there were a work stoppage in 2011 — while not
getting the most revenue
possible in other seasons,
when income would need to
be shared with players.
The union argued this
violated an agreement
between the sides that says
the NFL must make goodfaith efforts to maximize
revenue for players.
The NFLPA also said
any work stoppage clauses
in TV deals guaranteed
“war chest” income for the
NFL, giving it an unfair
advantage in labor talks.
The biggest sticking
point all along has been
how to divide the league’s
revenues, including what
cut team owners should get
up front to help cover certain costs, such as stadium
construction.
Under the old deal, owners got $1 billion off the
top. They entered these
negotiations seeking to
double that.
Among the other significant topics: a rookie wage
scale; the owners’ push to
expand the regular season
from 16 games to 18 while
reducing the preseason by
two games; and benefits for

retired players.
The 32 teams’ owners
are scheduled to meet
today and Thursday at a
hotel in Chantilly, Va., for
updates on the status of
negotiations.
And then they will need
to determine their next
step.
In many respects, this
boils down to money, of
course.
And there is plenty of
money at risk the longer it
takes for the league and
NFLPA to work together
again.
The league estimates
there would be a cut in
gross revenues of $350 million if there’s no new CBA
by August, before the preseason starts, and a loss of
revenues totaling $1 billion
if no new contract is in
place until September.
And if regular-season
games are lost in 2011, the
NFL figures that revenue
losses would amount to
about $400 million per
week.
“Both parties are at it,
full steam ahead, doing all
we can to come to an agreement,” Pitts said.
“It’s two groups doing
business. The tone? None of
that matters. It’s business,
and that’s the approach,
and that’s the expectation.
Doing all we can to get a
deal done.”

By Paul Elias

The Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO —
Barry Bonds’ former personal trainer is facing prison
and a judge admitted a
trove of evidence while the
admissibility of still more
hangs in the balance after a
pivotal hearing in federal
court Tuesday, three weeks
before the slugger’s trial is
scheduled to start.
Bonds also renewed his
not guilty plea, which was
made necessary when prosecutors revised the charges
for the third time since the
initial indictment was
unsealed in November 2007.
Bonds is charged with
four counts of making false
statements to a grand jury
and one count of obstruction
of justice.
There was little doubt
what Bonds’ plea was going
to be Tuesday and that the
case was going to trial
March 21 after Bonds’ legal
team and prosecutors last
month told U.S. District
Judge Susan Illston that
there was little chance of a
plea agreement.
Likewise, there was no
doubt that Bonds’ former
personal trainer, Greg
Anderson, would tell the
judge Tuesday that he has
no intention of taking the
stand as a government witness during the trial.
Anderson made a similar
pledge in 2009 before Bonds’
trial was put on hold until a
government appeal was
resolved in Bonds’ favor.
Anderson has previously
spent more than a year in
prison on contempt charges
after refusing to testify
before the grand jury investigating Bonds.
The judge said that prosecutors and Bonds’ legal
team both want Anderson to
testify.
She said his testimony
would spare his former clients, including several
retired major league players, from being called to the

witness stand to discuss
how he supplied them with
steroids.
Assistant U.S. Attorney
Jeff Ned row said he wants
to use that evidence to support their position that
Bonds was lying when he
claimed “he was unwittingly
duped by Mr. Anderson” into
believing he was taking
legal supplements.
“Much of that testimony
would be unnecessary” if he
testified, Illston told Anderson.
Illston then told Anderson that she planned to find
him in contempt of court
and will order him jailed
during the duration of the
trial, which is expected to
last at least two weeks.
Anderson simply nodded
his head when the judge
asked if he intended to follow through on his vow of
silence.
“He’s taking not testifying to the nth degree,” said
Mark Geragos, Anderson’s
attorney.
Illston ordered Anderson
to return to court March 22,
when she plans to order him
jailed.
After Anderson left the
courtroom, the lawyers got
down to highly technical
arguments over what evidence will be presented to
the jury.
The judge ruled that the
jury may hear, among other
pieces of evidence:
■ That prosecutors
granted Bonds immunity
from prosecution as long he
testified truthfully about
his drug use before the
grand jury.
■ Bonds’ former personal
shopper, Cathy
Hoskins, testifying about
Bonds’ relationship with a
Playboy model.
■ Bonds’ personal surgeon, Dr. Arthur Ting, and
former girlfriend Kim Bell
testifying that Bonds mistreated them, including Bell
allegedly witnessing violent
outbursts.

Hawks: Leon
Continued from B1 voting as kick returner
behind Chicago’s Devin
He was the 10th player Hester.
The deal with Washingin NFL history to return
two kickoffs for touchdowns ton was reached just days
in the same game and just before the current collecthe third to have both be for tive-bargaining agreement
expires on Thursday.
99 or more yards.
Until then, teams have
Later in the season,
Washington returned a the exclusive right to negokickoff 92 yards for a score tiate with their own free
against San Francisco and agents-to-be.
had a long punt return
But if a new collective
against Carolina where he bargaining-agreement is
was tripped up just shy of not reached before Friday,
the goal line.
the league is expected to
Washington tied for the shutter its doors in what
NFL lead with three kickoff will be the first work stopreturns for touchdowns and page since 1987.
averaged 25.6 yards per
Hasselbeck and defenreturn, good for eighth in sive tackle Brandon Mebane
are two other players the
the league.
Washington also scored Seahawks are actively seekone rushing touchdown. He ing to re-sign before a
finished second in All-Pro potential work stoppage.

CARSON CITY, Nev. —
Brooke Taylor voted for
Harry Reid in his battle for
re-election to the U.S. Senate last fall.
But now, she is incensed.
Reid recently visited
here from Washington, D.C.,
and took a firm, if unexpected, stand: He called for
an end to legal brothels.
For five years Taylor has
worked at the Moonlite
Bunny Ranch, the Nevada
brothel featured on the
HBO show “Cathouse,” a
few miles outside Carson
City, the state capital.
She has fashioned herself as the public face for
legal prostitution throughout the state, a role she has
embraced in adult magazines, on cable television
and even on “The Oprah
Winfrey Show.”
Now Reid’s comments
are reopening the oldest
debate about the oldest profession.
And Taylor is rallying
her army of fans and clients
to fight back.
Prostitution
never
emerged as an issue during
the Reid campaign.
But then Reid, a Democrat and the Senate majority leader, returned to his
home state last week for his
annual address to the state
Legislature.

‘The time has come’
“When the nation thinks
about Nevada, it should
think about the world’s
newest ideas and newest
careers, not about its oldest
profession,” Reid said.
“If we want to attract
business to Nevada that
puts people back to work,
the time has come to outlaw
prostitution.”
Consumed by the need
to close a $1.5 billion budget
gap, Gov. Brian Sandoval, a
Republican, and the leaders

The Associated Press

“We’re entrepreneurs,” said Brooke Taylor, in her room at the Bunny
Ranch outside Carson City, Nev.
in the Democrat-controlled
state Legislature issued
terse statements suggesting that they would leave
the issues of brothels up to
local leaders.
But that is hardly stopping the chatter.
It is unclear what motivated Reid at this moment.
When a reporter asked
him why now, he answered,
“If not now, when?”
But some are arguing
that now is precisely the
time to embrace legal prostitution even more tightly.
As the state has faced
austere budgets, the brothels have indicated a willingness to pay more taxes —
which would produce more
revenue and simultaneously give the brothels more
legitimacy if the state came
to rely on the money.
Some supporters of
brothels, like Taylor, say
they hope the debate will
give them a chance to push
to make prostitution legal
in large counties in the
state, where it is now
banned but widely acknowledged to exist.
“We’re entrepreneurs;
we’re in a business for ourselves,” she added.
When George Flint, who
has worked as the chief lob-

byist for the Nevada Brothel
Owners Association for 25
years, heard that Reid had
condemned the brothels, he
encouraged Dennis Hof, the
outlandish owner of the
Bunny Ranch and other
brothels, to take some of his
“girls” to the Legislature for
the speech.
Later, Hof said “Harry
Reid will have to pry the
cathouse keys from my cold,
dead hands.”
Flint, who is also the
proprietor of a wedding chapel in Reno, said politicians
here “have always been
pretty happy to ignore” the
brothels.
“Anyone who shows a lot
of support for us is going to
have some trouble,” he said.

1,000 legal prostitutes
Many of the brothels
here have existed for
decades.
Reid wrote in his autobiography about his mother
earning money by doing
laundry for some in his
hometown, Searchlight.
Officials estimate that
roughly 1,000 women
legally work as prostitutes
in the state, though only
about a third of them are
working on any given day.

The women generally set
their own rates and share
their pay with the brothel
owners.
Under state law, brothels
are illegal in counties with
a population above 400,000,
which includes Clark
County, home to Las Vegas.
But in many ways prostitution is most apparent
there, where aggressive
marketers constantly pass
out handbills with nude
women advertised as
escorts.
If prostitution were legal
in Las Vegas, Flint said, the
county could collect millions
of dollars in taxes.
Mayor Oscar Goodman
of Las Vegas, who is known
for relishing the “Sin City”
image, has said he may support a red-light district for
legal prostitution.
His wife, who is running
to succeed him, said during
a debate last week that she
was also open to the possibility.
Ed Goedhart, a Republican assemblyman from
northern Nevada, said
brothels speak to the state’s
history of “rugged individualism.”
“It shows we’re not just
another cookie-cutter state,”
he said.

Car sales jump; so do gas prices
Peninsula Daily News
news services

DETROIT — Sales of
new vehicles in the United
States increased 27 percent
in February, automakers
said Tuesday, even as violence in the Middle East
and a surge in gasoline
prices threatened to slow
the industry’s postrecession
recovery.
The automakers said
they were seeing some signs
that fuel economy was
becoming a higher priority
for consumers again but
that gas prices were not
affecting car shoppers as
much as three years ago,
when drivers were scrambling to get out of big trucks
and sport utility vehicles.
Sales rose 37 percent for
pickups and 34 percent for
SUVs from February 2010,
while demand for small
cars rose 24 percent, according to the Autodata Corp.

General Motors led all
automakers with a 46 percent increase, as sales of its
full-size pickup trucks
jumped 66 percent and its
Buick and Cadillac brands
each reported gains of at
least 70 percent.
Chrysler sold 82 percent
more pickups, though its
total sales were up just
13 percent.
Toyota said sales rose
42 percent last month,
when traffic at its dealerships was hurt by two big
recalls. Nissan, Hyundai
and Kia each set February
records.
Ford Motor Co., which
benefited from Toyota’s
troubles last February, said
sales were up 10 percent;
excluding Volvo, which Ford
no longer owns, its sales
were up 14 percent.
Its midsize car, the
Fusion, outsold the Honda
Accord, a perennial leader
in that hotly contested seg-

ment.
Ford said it planned to
increase vehicle production
by 9 percent in the second
quarter, despite widespread
projections that gasoline
prices could hit $4 this summer.
Nationwide, gas is averaging $3.375 a gallon after
rising 20 cents in the last
week and 27 cents from a
month ago, according to the
AAA motor club.
LeaseTrader.com, which
helps people who want to
get out of auto leases, said
its analysis of the price runup in 2008 suggested $4
was the psychological barrier that could cause consumers to change their buying behavior.
But the automakers said
they were confident sales
would continue to rise, in
part because many people
put off buying a new vehicle
during the recession and
would need one soon.

“If gas prices rise slowly,
as we expect them to, we
don’t expect to see a big
impact, but if there is a dramatic spike, that could obviously have a big impact on
industry volumes,” Don
Johnson, GM’s vice president of United States sales
operations, said in a conference call with analysts and
reporters.
“The last one, we had a
lot of people that overreacted and went into vehicles that didn’t meet their
needs.”
Since then, GM, Ford
and other automakers have
vastly improved their lineups of small cars as well as
the profit margins that
those segments generate.
Smaller cars are still
less profitable than trucks
and SUVs, but in the past,
the Detroit companies often
sold those models at a loss
simply to keep factories
running.

He said he did not think that its index of manufacturing activity rose to 61.4
“The most likely out- in February, up from 60.8
come is that the recent rise the previous month.
in commodity prices will
That’s the highest readlead to, at most, a tempo- ing since it reached the
rary and relatively modest same level in May 2004.
increase in U.S. consumer
The ISM’s index botprice inflation,” Bernanke tomed out at 33.3 in Decemsaid.
ber 2008, its lowest point in
Still, persistently higher nearly 30 years.
prices could shake conFactories
have
sumer confidence, prompt- rebounded at a healthy clip
ing consumers to reduce since the recession officially
spending.
ended in June 2009.
And that would weaken
Americans
have
the economy, he acknowl- resumed spending on cars,
edged.
appliances and other bigticket items, and businesses
Manufacturing: robust
are investing in more indusBut the resumption of trial machinery and other
oil’s climb triggered selling heavy equipment.
Deere & Co., the world’s
by nervous investors on
Wall Street, overshadowing largest manufacturer of
a report showing that U.S. agriculture equipment, said
manufacturing
activity last month that its quarremained robust in Febru- terly net income more than
ary, a good sign for the econ- doubled as rising prices for
corn, wheat and other crops
omy.
The Institute for Supply encouraged U.S. farmers to
Management said Tuesday buy new machinery.
so.

Judge holds
off DSHS
benefit cuts
SEATTLE — A U.S.
District Court judge has
put a temporary hold on a
state rule change that
would have cut government dollars going to disabled children and their
families.
The rule change by the
state Department of
Social and Health Services would have forced
poor families to count federal disability payments
when determining their
income.
The rule was scheduled to go into effect
Tuesday.
The change could have
forced thousands of families to lose benefits from
the Temporary Assistance
for Needy Families and
the State Family Assistance programs.
U.S. District Judge
James Robart said in his
ruling issued Monday
that when faced with a
conflict between dollars
and human suffering, the
balance tips in favor of
preventing human suffering.
A hearing on the temporary injunction will be
held March 21.

BofA outages
NEW YORK — Customers of Bank of America Corp. were again having problems accessing
their accounts online
Tuesday.
It was the second outage for the bank in less
than two months.
The latest problems,
which began Monday and
hadn’t been resolved by
early Tuesday evening,
were the result of system
upgrades over the weekend, said Tara Burke, a
company spokeswoman.
The site was slow to
load in some cases, and
other customers were
unable to log on.

Commercial fish
ANCHORAGE — A
survey for possible oil and
gas drilling off Alaska’s
northern coast have found
commercial fish such as
Pacific cod and walleye
pollock in Arctic waters
where they have not been
previously documented.
The study, recently
compiled into a final
report, of the Chukchi
and Beaufort seas has
generated research of
value beyond oil exploration.
The National Marine
Fisheries Service conducted a trawler survey
in the western Beaufort.
In addition to the discovery of cod and pollock it
found commercial-sized
snow crab.
The findings led regulators to ban commercial
fishing in U.S. Arctic
waters before seafood
companies could send
boats.
A larger concern is the
potential for environmental disruption, either from
increased shipping traffic
as Arctic ice recedes or
from catastrophic oil spills.
Another survey of the
central Beaufort is scheduled this summer, led by
the University of Alaska
Fairbanks.

Real-time stock
quotations at

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ing Canada lynx this winter to continue their study
of the elusive cat.
Since 2006, biologists
have captured 12 lynx in
an effort to learn more
about their needs and
habits.
The Canada lynx is
listed as a threatened
species at both the state
and federal levels.
Studies so far show the
animals prefer higher elevation forests that support snowshoe hares,
their main food source.

Cargo terminal
BELLINGHAM —
Seattle-based SSA Marine
has started the environmental review process for
a $500 million marine terminal at Cherry Point in
Whatcom County.
The terminal would
load coal, grain and minerals onto ships for transport to Asia. A ship would
call at the terminal every
day-and-a-half.
The company hopes to
start construction in 2013
and open the terminal in
2015. It would employ
about 430 workers.
SSA runs 125 marine
terminal operations
around the world.

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NEW YORK — Escalating unrest in the Middle
East is again driving oil
prices up and stocks down
— and is sending some
investors fleeing for classic
havens, including precious
metals and Treasury bonds.
Gold hit a record high
Tuesday, topping its previous peak reached at the
start of the year.
March gold futures
soared $21.40 to $1,430.70
an ounce, topping the previous closing record of
$1,422.60 reached Jan. 3.
Silver surged 61 cents to
$34.42 an ounce, a new
31-year high (unadjusted
for inflation).
Gold has risen in 10 of
the last 11 trading sessions
as social unrest in the Middle East and North Africa
has spread.
Near-term oil futures in
New York ended floor trading at $99.63 a barrel, up

$2.66, or 2.7 percent, from
Monday and the highest
close since September 2008.
Crude
had
briefly
reached a high of $103.41
during trading last Thursday before pulling back.
Oil’s price in London also
jumped Tuesday, gaining
$3.68 to $115.48 a barrel.
Some investors snapped
up Treasury securities,
pushing yields down.
The five-year T-note
yield slipped to 2.12 percent
from 2.14 percent Monday.

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CLASSIFIEDS, COMICS,
PUZZLES, DEAR ABBY
In this section

PT woman rebuilds Victorian Festival
Two-day
event slated
this month

PORT TOWNSEND NEIGHBOR

“All of
the events
Jackson except the
walking
tours are
inside,” Liu
AS A TEACHER,
said.
Kathy Liu imparted the
Outside,
basics of chemistry, physics
however, is
and biology to high school
where Liu
students in Daly City, Calif.
made the
Then she helped start
connection
an online professional
that led to
development resource for
her volunbiology teachers called
teering to coordinate the
Access Excellence, working festival.
with the sponsor, Genentech, for 15 years.
Rhody Run roots
Moving to Port
It was the spring after
Townsend in 2002, she and
her husband, Chelcie Liu, she and her husband had
moved to town, and they
built a craftsman-style
house and commissioned a were attending the annual
Rhody Run party hosted by
traditional wooden boat,
Bill and Wendy Metzer
the Townsend Tern.
at their house, which is on
Now, Liu is rebuilding
the local Victorian Festival the course. Guests sit at
chairs and tables set up
from the keel up, starting
along the road and cheer
with a new name.
on the racers, with Bill
But Libby Palmer,
passing out slices of waterwho is coordinating the
melons.
Orca Project at the Port
“We started talking to
Townsend Marine Science
the couple at the next table
Center, didn’t know that
and discovered that the
when she got a call from
man, Frank Durbin, and
Liu, asking if Palmer
I had gone to high school
would give a presentation
about whales for Victorian together in Ketchikan,
Alaska,” Liu said.
Heritage Days.
Frank’s spouse, Pat
“She was surprised,” Liu
said. “Then I explained the Durbin, has been director
of the Victorian Festival
idea, to look at attitudes
and is a founding member
towards whales then and
of the Victorian Society in
now. In Victorian times,
whales were used for lamp America, Northwest chapoil, corset stays and scrim- ter, which put the festival
on two years ago.
shaw.”
Trying to figure out how
the festival could be orgaVictorian ties
nized so that it wasn’t too
The request exemplifies much work for the organizthe new approach Liu
ers, Liu came up with the
brought to the festival:
idea of drawing on local
Instead of making a list of
resources.
events and trying to find
“I see it as opening up
sponsors and coordinators, the history of the commushe made a list of nonprof- nity,” she said. “We need to
its in town and went
be looking at all these difaround asking if people
ferent aspects of it.”
wanted to participate by
She also suggested makhighlighting aspects of
ing the festival’s signature
their work that have a Vic- event, the Grand Ball, less
torian tie.
grand and more user“The focus is on our
friendly by de-emphasizing
community and underthe need for Victorian cosstanding the connection
tume and lowering the
between past and present,” ticket price.
Liu said. “It’s not so much
The result: the inaugudressing up as understand- ral Equinox Ball on Saturing what Victorian left us
day, March 19, in the renoand what we still use.”
vated JFK Building at Fort
Also on board for the
Worden State Park.
March 18-20 festival are
The theme is “Hands
the Northwest Maritime
Across the Centuries,” with
Center, where boat builders people encouraged to come
employ 19th-century skills dressed as people from any
to maintain wooden boats,
century, past, present or
and the Port Townsend
future.
School of Woodworking,
Tickets are $15 for
which has been involved in adults, $8 for under 18.
preservation and restora“We want everyone to
tion of buildings at Fort
come out and have fun,”
Worden State Park.
Liu said. “You can come
For Victorian Heritage
and listen and talk. It’s a
Days, Kevin Palo, who
social event.”
teaches at the school, will
The Uptown Cotillion
give presentations on
will play “genteel dancing
understanding old houses
music,” including waltzes,
and weatherizing them.
foxtrots and quadrilles, on
Liu is weatherizing the
violin, concertina and harp.
festival by addressing one
There may be a grand
of the problems in past
march, a tradition at balls
years: the unpredictable
in the past, but it will not
March weather.
be an evening of called

Jennifer

dances, Liu said.
Victorian Festival traditions that remain
untweaked: the Victorian
Teas and the Victorian
Fashion Show, the latter
put on by JoAnn Bussa as
a fundraiser for the Jefferson County Historical Society’s scholarship fund.

Old and new
New this year: living
model presentations by
Sarah and Gabe Chrisman on a Victorian lady’s
dressing sequence, a Victorian gentleman’s dressing
sequence and how Victorians wore their clothes.
Free events include a
Victorian Family Social
and Victorian parlor games
for children at Jefferson
Community School and an
interactive quilting and
handwork demonstration
amid the antique velvet
couches and crystal chandeliers on the upper floor of
the Vintage Hardware
Building.
Realtor Nancy Stelow
is creating a list of houses
with historic significance
that are for sale that will
open for viewing during the
weekend. The list will be
online (victorianfestival.
org) or can be picked up at
Heritage Days headquarters, the former Chamber
of Commerce Visitors Center on Sims Way.
Also available will be a
$15 pass that covers the
admission fees at the
Jennifer Jackson/for Peninsula Daily News
Marine Science Center and
With
the
help
of
local
organizations,
Kathy
Liu
is recasting the Victorian
participating museums: the
Festival into Victorian Heritage Days, with the focus on connections
Commanding Officer’s
between the past and present.
Quarters and Coast Artillery Museum at Fort Worden and the Jefferson
“It’s not so much dressing up as understanding what Victorian left us
County Historical Museum
and what we still use.”
and the Rothschild House
in town.
Kathy Liu
Tickets for bus tours
Port Townsend resident who is recasting the Victorian Festival
and walking tours are $10
each.
Liu kept the cost low by
going to Seaport Landing
and Discovery View Apartments and asking for the
loan of their buses. The
directors were glad to
oblige.
“I do hope people will
see what we’re doing as a
beginning and next year
come to us and say, ‘I want
to participate in this way,’”
Liu said.
Anyone who wants to
hold an event in conjunction with the festival this
year is free to put out a
sign and do so, Liu said,
and she will be glad to add
it to the list.
“This is not about making money,” Liu said. “This
is about building community and making connections.”
Contact Liu at 360-3791954 or vic.soc.nw@gmail.
com.

HOME SHOW
SPECIALS!

________
Jennifer Jackson writes about
Port Townsend and Jefferson
County every Wednesday. To contact her with items for this column,
phone 360-379-5688 or e-mail
jjackson@olypen.com.

JCPH said in calling for
nominations.
There is no limit to the
number of nominations a
person can submit.
For nomination forms, go
to the JCPH office, 615 Sheridan St., Port Townsend;
visit www.jeffersoncounty
publichealth.org; or ask that
an application be mailed by
phoning 360-385-9400.
To return a nomination
form, drop off or mail it to
JCPH c/o Public Health
Heroes, 615 Sheridan St.,
Port Townsend, WA 98368,
or fax to 360-385-9401.
Winners
will
be
announced at the Thursday,
April 21, Jefferson County
Board of Health meeting at
2:30 p.m. at 615 Sheridan St.
For more information,
phone Julia Danskin at 360385-9400 or send an e-mail
to jdanskin@co.jefferson.
wa.us.
For more about National
Public Health week, visit
www.nphw.org.

PORT TOWNSEND —
Local “Public Health Heroes
who make our community
safer” are sought as Jefferson County Public Health
prepares to observe National
Public Health Week on
April 4-10.
This year’s theme is
“Safety is NO Accident.”
The annual JCPH awards
honor people who live or
work in Jefferson County
and promote public health in
their daily lives.
Nominations from the
public are due Wednesday,
March 16.
Following are the categories, though nominations
can be made for other reasons:
■ Community Health
Promotion, honoring individuals or groups whose
efforts increase the quality
of life in the county.
■ Public Health Leadership, for those who have provided leadership in creating

policy solutions that promote
and protect the community
health.
■ Business Merit, recognizing companies for environmentally sound practices
or for making healthy
choices in what they sell,
how they support employees
and how they promote community health.
■ Community Based
Organization, recognizing
those who provide infrastructure and services that
promote public health in a
variety of ways.
■ Special Recognition for
the Public Health Hero, for
individuals or groups who
help identify a problem and
then help the community
work towards its resolution
— planting trees, building
trails, promoting physical
exercise or health diets, fitting children’s car seats.
“We want to hear your
story” about efforts to prevent injuries and health
problems before they occur,

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Peninsula Woodworkers
Club — For those interested in
all phases of woodworking
from furniture and cabinet
making to wood turning, carving, boat-building, instrument-

We are looking for those individuals
who would like to share their talents
and their time with our residents.

Soroptimist International
of Sequim call for artists —
For artwork to display during
14th annual Gala Garden
Show on March 18 and 19,
2012. Submit flower and/or
garden themed works by
March 31. Visit www.sequim
gardenshow.com for an artist
agreement and contract information.

Whether your talents are musical,
dance, storytelling, crafts, etc., or you
have time to spend visiting and reminiscing with our residents, we would
love to talk with you.
Please call 360-683-7047 and talk
with our Life Enrichment Director
about sharing your talents and time
with our residents.

DEAR ABBY: My husband and I
moved into our first home two years
ago.
A few months after that, our lives
got even better with the addition of
our son.
After living here for a while, we
noticed that the neighbors behind us
have a large window in their shower,
and they tend to take a lot of nighttime showers.
I’m sure you can see where this is
heading.
For a long time, we chose to
ignore it, but my motherly instincts
are getting the better of me now.
I can’t help thinking of the day
when my son is old enough to realize
what he’s seeing.
My husband and I have been
debating whether to tell our neighbors we can see them showering.
Sometimes they get pretty carried
away in there.
Should I tell them we can see
everything? And if so, how do I go
about it without causing them to be
embarrassed, ashamed or angry?
Getting an Eyeful
in Ohio

For Better or For Worse

Pickles

DEAR ABBY
Dear Giving
Notice: Because
Van Buren you have been in
school for the
length of time you
have, your
announcement will
probably not come
as much of a surprise to your
employer.
However, before
you give notice, be
sure you have
another job in place.
When you do speak to your
employer, thank him or her for your
job.
Explain that you are ready to
start in your new field and offer to
spend a few weeks training your
replacement to make any transition
easier.

Abigail

Dear Abby: My husband recently
had major surgery. I wanted to call a
few close friends and family members beforehand to let them know.
When I told my husband, we had
Dear Getting an Eyeful:
an argument. He felt they would feel
Another shower letter!
Write your neighbors a polite note obligated to respond. I felt it would
be nice for both of us to have support
telling them there is a clear view
and that they would want to know.
into their shower when their lights
As it turned out, I made some
are on at night.
Explain that before your son was calls, and we did receive some muchborn, this was not of concern to you, needed support. Was I wrong to do
but now that you have a small child, this? My husband wants your opinyou would appreciate it if they would ion on the matter.
work with you on a solution to this
Grateful for Helping Hands
problem.
in Colorado
They may not be aware they’ve
been putting on an X-rated show.
Dear Grateful: The prospect of
major surgery can be frightening —
Dear Abby: I have worked in the both for the patient and the spouse.
same office for more than a decade.
Your husband may have preferred to
Last year, I returned to school in an
downplay it because he was afraid
effort to finally get into a field where broadcasting it was displaying weakI can earn more money. I will gradu- ness.
ate next spring and, hopefully, will
You obviously found the prospect
begin a new career.
traumatic and didn’t want to be
I need your advice about how to
alone at that time. Was it wrong to
approach my boss when the time
ask for help? I don’t think so.
My advice to your husband is to
comes. This is a very small office
and, while I wouldn’t call us friends, lighten up and get well soon.
we probably have a closer relation_________
ship than most people in a larger
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren,
office would have.
also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was
Any thoughts on the best way to
founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Letapproach this?
ters can be mailed to Dear Abby, P.O. Box
Giving Notice 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069 or via e-mail
on the East Coast by logging onto www.dearabby.com.

Frank & Ernest

Garfield

Momma

The Last Word in Astrology
By Eugenia Last
ARIES (March 21-April
19): Concentrate on working
as a team player. Greater
stability will be established if
you are committed to whatever project you are working
on. By offering your time,
services or listening to the
concerns being expressed,
you will enhance an important partnership. 4 stars

Elderberries

Doonesbury

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):
You can make a big splash
with someone who interests
you personally or professionally. A partnership can
ease your stress and help
stabilize your life financially
and emotionally. Make alterations to your home environment. 3 stars

SAGITTARIUS (Nov.
22-Dec. 21): Rely on your
past experience in order to
make the right decision
now. Someone is likely to
play games with you mentally if you don’t have your
facts straight. Preparation
will be the key. 4 stars

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.
22): Put a little pressure on
someone you feel owes
you. Call in favors and take
action regarding a new
position or job you want. Do
something you’ve wanted to
do for a long time that will
boost your confidence and
improve your attitude.
3 stars

CAPRICORN (Dec.
22-Jan. 19): You’ll be
inclined to overreact if
someone makes a last-minute change that upsets your
plans. Keep moving in the
direction you feel you need
to go and you will discover
how capable you are and
send a strong signal that
you don’t need to rely on
anyone for anything. 3 stars

GEMINI (May 21-June
20): Follow your heart, your
dreams and your intuition.
Take on a little extra work
and you’ll send a positive
message to your boss, clients or colleagues. Pick and
choose what you take on.
Actions speak louder than
words. 5 stars

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct.
22): Things are looking up
both personally and professionally. You will have
greater insight into what
others want from you and
can, therefore, deliver the
goods. The chance to
enhance your romantic life
is apparent. 5 stars

AQUARIUS (Jan.
20-Feb. 18): You can
enhance your life by making
alterations to your living
space. Money that is owed
to you or that you don’t
have to work for will be presented in an unusual set of
circumstances. A promise
made must be kept. 3 stars

CANCER (June 21-July
22): You will learn a lot from
someone you consider a
doer. If you don’t try to fit too
much into one day or one
project, you will do a good
job. A couple of personal
changes will alter not only
your outlook but your status.
3 stars

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov.
21): Take a good look at
what you are up against
and take action. There is no
room for second-guessing.
You need to be sure and to
act fast. Your emotions will
play games with you if you
don’t stick to your game
plan. 2 stars

PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20): You’ll be broadsided by
what someone does behind
your back. Don’t retaliate.
Do what’s least expected
and you will regain your
status quo. It’s the little
things that will count today.
Keep it simple and to the
point. 3 stars

TAURUS (April 20-May
20): Don’t make a foolish
mistake by letting your emotions come between you and
what you want. Everything is
falling into place. All you
have to do is what’s
expected of you. It’s up to
you to show your worth.
2 stars

And you can sell your car in the
Peninsula Classifieds even if you’re
selling your Chevy and your name
is Chase.

6A113352

classified@peninsuladailynews.com

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Notes

PRENATAL YOGA
Feel a sense of support and community with other pregnant women as
you increase flexibility, strength, circulation and balance. A regular
yoga practice can
help to reduce
swelling, insomnia,
back and leg pain
commonly associated with pregnancy. The class is
safe for all three
trimesters.
8-week class for
expecting moms
begins
Sunday,
March 13.
For more information or to register,
please e-mail Jennifer Veneklasen at
jennven@hotmail.c
om or phone 360775-8746.
Space is limited.

Adult Family Home
RN Homecare near
Sequim has a private room available. Dementia and
elder care, respite.
Competitive
prices. 683-1967.
BIBLE TUTOR
683-9499
The public is invited to
an
Environmental
Hearing and Open
House
on
the
Kitchen-Dick
Rd.
Widening
Project
Thursday, March 17
from 4:30-6:30 p.m.
at Greywolf Elementary School.

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oriented,
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Do you need your dog
walked? Are you too
busy during the day?
Call 640-4366
In Home Angel. I
would love to help
your or your loved
one in your/their
home. I am a Certified Nursing Assistant with 6 yrs. of
experience. Sequim
area only. Rate @
$15.00/Hr. Please
call Deanna at
360-565-6271
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460-2768
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om

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51

Homes

1940’S CLASSIC ON
3 CITY LOTS
3 Br., 1.15 bath on 3
lots with water and
mountain views.
$250,000. ML252231.
Harriet Reyenga
457-0456
WINDERMERE P.A.
CHARMING
COTTAGE BY
THE SEA
With lovely cameo
water views. Private
community beach
access and a private
airport
nearby.
Gourmet
kitchen
with new stainless
appliances. Vaulted
ceilings and stunning
maple laminate flooring. Enjoy sitting on
the expansive covered deck and watch
the ships pass by.
This special and
unique home has a
warmth and charm
you must experience. $309,900.
Jim Hardie
U-$ave
Real Estate
775-7146
CHARMING
Recently updated with
laminate floors in living room, dining
room and kitchen. 3
Br., 2 bath, 2 fireplaces. Home features vinyl siding,
metal
roof,
trex
decking,
solar
screens on living
room windows (west
side of home), new
metal garage doors
and is low maintenance. $224,900.
ML260189
Linda Ulin
683-4844
Windermere Real
Estate Sequim East
CLOSE TO BEACH
This 1 story home has
a classy and elegant
design. A gorgeous
Whiskey Creek River
rock fireplace along
with beautiful views
of a valley-like pasture and treed creek
area are enjoyed
from the living room.
A few minutes walk
to Whiskey Creek
Beach. 3 Br., 2 bath,
2,438 sf. A very well
maintained home.
$279,900. ML260350.
Marc Thomsen
417-2782
COLDWELL
BANKER UPTOWN
REALTY
COUNTRY LIVING,
CITY
CONVENIENCE
Home is a 2 Br., 2
bath, 2005 model in
excellent shape situated on a beautiful
country acre parcel.
The location? You
can have it both
ways being perfectly
positioned between
Sequim and Port
Angeles – it’s just a
short drive either
way. You won’t find
many newer homes
on an acre for this
price! Check it out
and call it home.
$179,000. ML252040.
Dave Sharman
683-4844
Windermere Real
Estate Sequim East

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51

Homes

BRINNON: Rent to
own. 2 Br., 2 bath
doublewide. On two
lots in Seamount
Estates, with community beach. Has
woodstove.
$85,900
360-796-4813
FANTASTIC VIEWS
Strait, city lights, Victoria and Mount
Baker. Vaulted cedar
tongue and groove
ceilings, skylights,
fireplace
with
propane insert and
two free standing
propane stoves, separated Master Br.
Large wood deck off
family room. RV
parking with dump,
water and electric.
$397,000. ML251615.
Karen Kilgore
683-4844
Windermere Real
Estate Sequim East
FSBO, 2003, 3 Br.,
1.75 ba, 1,188 sf on
city lot, open floor
plan, oversized single car detached
garage, professionally landscaped, sprinkler system, huge
patio, partly fenced,
mtn. view from yard,
many extras.
$159,900. 452-9297.
GET READY TO BE
SURPRISED
Not the usual 70’s
rambler. Jazzed up
and opened up, this
is a delightful home.
Kitchen has been
opened up so that
the cook isn’t isolated. Doors lead from
the dining area to the
spacious
deck.
You’re going to love
the deck and fenced
backyard. Relax or
have a party! There’s
plenty of space. Lots
of parking for your
vehicles with extra
paving by the driveway and a space
inside the fence for
your boat or RV.
$220,000. ML260253.
Pili Meyer
417-2799
COLDWELL
BANKER UPTOWN
REALTY
HARBOR VIEWS
Enjoy great water
views from this custom built home in the
city. Lots of wood,
open main floor,
vaulted
ceiling.
Deep jetted soak tub
in
master
bath.
Upper floor is like a
tree house; lots of
large windows, wood
stove, private balcony and some
mountain
views.
Garage on lower
level
with
shop
(220V), storage, 1/2
bath. Nicely landscaped with fruit
trees and raised garden beds. $235,000.
ML260317
Cathy Reed
683-4844
Windermere Real
Estate Sequim East

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C5

By DAVID
OUELLET
HOW TO PLAY: All the words listed below appear in the puzzle –– horizontally, vertically, diagonally, even backward. Find them and CIRCLE THEIR
LETTERS ONLY. DO NOT CIRCLE THE WORD. The leftover letters spell
the Wonderword.
REGIS PHILBIN IS RETIRING

PARTIAL VIEW AND
INCREDIBLE
PRICE
Large eat-in kitchen/
family room with
center island bar and
propane fireplace.
High ceilings, lots of
windows for a light
bright feel. Bonus
room at garage level
an additional 300+
sf. $199,900.
ML39472
Lois Chase Johnson
360-437-1011
Windermere Port
Ludlow
‘R’ IS FOR
RIVER FRONT
One of a kind riverfront parcel with over
400 feet of river
frontage on the Dungeness. Septic and
well are already
installed,
totally
buildable,
lovable
and fishable. 15
acres, house, greenhouse, shop and
more! Too new for
MLS!
Jace Schmitz
360-452-1210
JACE The Real
Estate Company

Two commercial lots
on busy C St. Commercial
neighborhood zoning has
many permitted uses
including retail, food
and beverage, residential with business, and many
more. Great value,
and owner may carry
financing with 15%
down, subject to
seller approval and
terms. $119,500.
ML260214
Clarice Arakawa
457-0456
WINDERMERE P.A.

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CITY OF PORT ANGELES
NOTICE OF DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION
AND PUBLIC HEARING
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on February
25, 2011, the CITY OF PORT ANGELES
received an application for an UNCLASSIFIED
USE PERMIT to allow an outdoor recreational
area to be established on approximately a 90
acre property in the Industrial Heavy zone. The
application was considered to be complete on
February 25, 2011 for the activities described
which include seasonal sprint boat track and
rock crawling events . It is anticipated that such
events will include overnight camping and vendor activity for the duration of the activities. The
CITY OF PORT ANGELES PLANNING COMMISSION will conduct a public hearing on
MARCH 23, 2011, for consideration of the
unclassified use permit application. Interested
parties are encouraged to comment on the
request and to attend the public hearing that
will begin at 6 p.m., City Hall, 321 East Fifth
Street, Port Angeles, Washington. Written comment must be submitted no later than March 16,
2011, to be included in the staff report. Information may be reviewed at the City Department of
Community & Economic Development, City
Hall, P.O. Box 1150, Port Angeles. City Hall is
accessible to persons with disabilities. Interested parties are invited to attend the meeting .
STATE ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT: It is
anticipated that a determination of non significance will be issued for the project following the
required review period that ends on March 16,
2011.
APPLICANT: A2Z ENTERPRISES
LOCATION: 2918 Edgewood Drive
For further information contact: Sue Roberds,
(360) 417-4750
Pub: March 2, 2011

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Legals
Jefferson Co.

104

Legals
Jefferson Co.

Notice of Trustee's Sale Pursuant To the Revised Code of Washington
61.24, et seq. On April 01, 2011 at 10:00AM inside the main lobby of the
Jefferson County Courthouse, 1820 Jefferson St., in the city of Port
Townsend, WA, State of Washington, the undersigned Trustee , RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., (subject to any conditions imposed by the
trustee to protect the lender and borrower) will sell at public auction to the
highest and best bidder, payable at time of sale, the following described
real property, situated in the county(ies) of Jefferson,State of Washington:
Tax Parcel ID no.: 988 800 203 THE NORTH 38 FEET OF THE EAST 55
FEET OF LOT 4 AND THE EAST 92.6 FEET OF THE SOUTH 30.5 FEET
OF LOT 6 IN BLOCK 2 OF PLUMMER'S ADDITION TO THE CITY OF
PORT TOWNSEND, AS PER PLAT RECORDED IN VOLUME 1 OF PLATS,
PAGES 34, RECORDS OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, WASHINGTON. SITUATE IN THE COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF WASHINGTON. Commonly Known as: 719 ADAMS STREET , PORT TOWNSEND, WA 98368
which is subject to that certain Deed of Trust dated 09/28/2006, recorded on 09/29/2006,under Auditor's File No. 516024 and Deed of Trust rerecorded on ___, under Auditor's File No. __, records of Jefferson County, Washington from CHAQUOIA MAHANEY, as grantor, to PRLAP, INC.,
as Trustee, to secure an obligation in favor of BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,
as beneficiary. II. No action commenced by the Beneficiary of the Deed
of Trust is now pending to seek satisfaction of the obligation in any court
by reason of the Grantor's or Borrower's default on the obligation
secured by the Deed of Trust. III. The Beneficiary alleges default of the
Deed of Trust for failure to pay the following amounts now in arrears
and/or other defaults: A. Monthly Payments $45,842.40 B. Late Charges
$2,520.18 C. Beneficiary Advances $1,145.31 D. Suspense Balance
($1,222.48) E. Other Fees $ 0.00 Total Arrears $48,285.41 F. Trustee's
Expenses (Itemization) Trustee's Fee $337.50 Title Report $951.75 Statutory Mailings $25.28 Recording Fees $ .00 Publication $ .00 Posting
$100.00 Total Costs $1,414.53 Total Amount Due: $49,699.94 Other
potential defaults do not involve payment of the Beneficiary. If applicable,
each of these defaults must also be cured. Listed below are categories of
common defaults, which do not involve payment of money to the Beneficiary. Opposite each such listed default is a brief description of the
action/documentation necessary to cure the default. The list does not
exhaust all possible other defaults; any defaults identified by Beneficiary
or Trustee that are not listed below must also be cured. OTHER DEFAULT
ACTION NECESSARY TO CURE Nonpayment of Taxes/Assessments
Deliver to Trustee written proof that all taxes and assessments against the
property are paid current Default under any senior lien Deliver to Trustee
written proof that all senior liens are paid current and that no other
defaults exist. Failure to insure property against hazard Deliver to Trustee
written proof that the property is insured against hazard as required by
the Deed of Trust. Waste Cease and desist from committing waste, repair
all damage to property and maintain property as required in Deed of
Trust. Unauthorized sale of property (Due on Sale) Revert title to permitted vestee. IV. The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of
Trust is: Principal Balance of $290,424.60, together with interest as provided in the note or other instrument secured from 03/01/2009 and such
other costs and fees as are due under the Note or other instrument
secured, and as are provided by statute. V. The above-described real
property will be sold to satisfy the expense of the sale and the obligation
secured by the Deed of Trust as provided by statute. The sale will be
made without warranty, express or implied regarding title, possession, or
encumbrances on 04/01/2011. The default(s) referred to in paragraph III,
together with any subsequent payments, late charges, advances costs
and fees thereafter due, must be cured by 03/21/2011 (11 days before the
sale date), to cause a discontinuance of the sale. The sale will be discontinued and terminated if at any time before the close of the Trustee's business on 03/21/2011 (11 days before the sale date), the defaults(s) as set
forth in paragraph III, together with any subsequent payments, late
charges, advances, costs and fees thereafter due, is/are cured and the
Trustee's fees and costs are paid. The sale may be terminated any time
after 03/21/2011 (11 days before the sale date), and before the sale by
the Borrower, Grantor, and Guarantor or the holder of any recorded junior lien or encumbrance paying the entire balance of principal and interest secured by the Deed of Trust, plus costs, fees, and advances, if any
made pursuant to the terms of the obligation and/or Deed of Trust. VI A
written notice of default was transmitted by the Beneficiary or Trustee to
the Borrower and Grantor at the following address(es): CHAQUOIA
MAHANEY 719 Adams St Port Townsend, WA 98368 CHAQUOIA
MAHANEY 719 ADAMS STREET PORT TOWNSEND, WA 98368
LI'LAQUA WELL 719 Adams St Port Townsend, WA 98368 LI'LAQUA
WELL 719 ADAMS STREET PORT TOWNSEND, WA 98368 CHAQUOIA
P MAHANEY 719 ADAMS STREET PORT TOWNSEND, WA 98368 by
both first class and either certified mail, return receipt requested, or registered mail on 10/08/2010, proof of which is in the possession of the
Trustee; and on 10/09/2010 Grantor and Borrower were personally
served with said written notice of default or the written notice of default
was posted on a conspicuous place on the real property described in
paragraph I above, and the Trustee has possession of such service or
posting. VII. The Trustee whose name and address are set forth below will
provide in writing to anyone requesting it a statement of all foreclosure
costs and trustee's fees due at any time prior to the sale. VIII. The effect
of the sale will be to deprive the Grantor and all those who hold by,
through or under the Grantor of all their right, title and interest in the
above-described property. IX. Anyone having any objections to the sale
on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard
as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant
to RCW 61.24.130. Failure to bring such a lawsuit may result in a waiver
of any proper grounds for invalidating the Trustee's sale. X. NOTICE TO
OCCUPANTS OR TENANTS - The purchaser at the Trustee's Sale is entitled to possession of the property on the 20th day following the sale, as
against the grantor under the deed of trust (the owner) and anyone having an interest junior to the deed of trust, including occupants who are not
tenants. After the 20th day following the sale the purchaser has the right
to evict occupants who are not tenants by summary proceedings under
Chapter 59.12 RCW. For tenant-occupied property, the purchaser shall
provide a tenant with written notice in accordance with RCW 61.24.060
and/or any applicable Federal Law. DATED: December 28, 2010 RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. By: Norine Scida Its: Authorized Signer RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. P.O. Box 10284, Van Nuys, CA 91410-0284
Phone: (800) 281-8219 (TS# 10-0124684) 1006.115129-FEI
Pub: March 2, 23, 2011

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Cloudy, chance
of a little rain;
chilly.

Rather cloudy
with a chance
of rain.

Mainly cloudy
and chilly.

The Peninsula
The weather across the Olympic Peninsula will remain unsettled today
into Thursday. A cold front will push onshore, bringing periods of rain
today and tonight. Above 3,000 feet, snow will fall today. Snow
levels will fall to near 1,500 feet tonight. Storm total of 6 to 12
Neah Bay
Port
inches of snow in the highest elevations. As the cold front
44/35
Townsend
pushes inland Thursday, some rain and mountain snow
Port Angeles
47/36
showers will be around. There will be a lull between
44/33
storms Friday with a chance for rain. Another storm will
Sequim
bring rain and mountain snow over the weekend.

SEATTLE — When MIT
researchers sought volunteers willing to have their
trash tagged and tracked,
Jodee Fenton offered up
about 10 household items
including a pair of running
shoes.
Then she tossed them as
she normally would, and
watched as the electronic
tracking devices gave clues
to its journey:
n Plastic wrap went
from her Seattle curb to

Eastern Washington and
then Texas.
n An old computer recycled near downtown Seattle
was traced to New Mexico
and then Mexico.
n The shoes stayed in
south Seattle.
“Out of sight out of mind,
but it truly isn’t,” said Fenton, 62, a project volunteer
who works as a special collections manager for SeatLibrary event, too
tle’s main library.
“It forces us to ask the
They also tagged items
questions: What are we that the public brought to a
really doing with all this Seattle Public Library
event.
Researchers wanted to
get people thinking about
where trash goes once it
gets tossed.
“Gnomeo and Juliet” (G)
It turns out, some of that
“Hall Pass” (R)
trash traveled long disn The Rose Theatre,
tances.
Computers and other
Port Townsend (360electronic
waste, for exam385-1089)
ple, traveled on average
“Barney’s Version” (R)
more than 950 miles on
“The Illusionist” (PG)
their way to specialized
n Uptown Theatre, Port reuse and recycling facilities.
Townsend (360-385Cell phones were tracked
3883)
to Florida, printer car“Just Go With It” (PG-13)
tridges to Tennessee and

trash and maybe we should
be thinking about new ways
of manufacturing or getting
rid of it.”
MIT researchers tracking 3,000 pieces of Seattle’s
trash in an unusual project
have found that a majority
of that garbage ended up at
recycling facilities.
In 2009, a team from
MIT’s SENSEable City Lab
went to the homes of Seattle volunteers and affixed
smart tags to pizza boxes,
printer cartridges, cell
phones and other items.

batteries to Minnesota.
The MIT team even
traced one printer cartridge
about 3,800 miles, as it
traveled by truck to Chicago and then by plane to
near the California border
with Mexico, Trash Track
project leader Dietmar
Offenhuber said.
Another printer cartridge arrived at the same
facility from Seattle, but
took a different route along
the Pacific coast.
“This was quite surprising,” Offenhuber said, noting there was more to
examine.
“We really have to think
hard about how we want to
collect electronics and hazard household waste.”
The distance that some
of these items travel also
raises questions about the
carbon emissions produced
in getting waste to a recycling facility.
But Brett Stav, a planning and development specialist for Seattle Public
Utilities, said there are
many ways to weigh the
value of recycling, such as
keeping some toxic materials out of landfills.
“Just because there’s a
carbon footprint, does that
mean you shouldn’t recycle
it?” Stav said.

“Out of sight out of mind, but it truly isn’t. It
forces us to ask the questions: What are we
really doing with all this trash and maybe we
should be thinking about new ways of
manufacturing or getting rid of it.”

Jodee Fenton
project volunteer who works as a special collections manager
for Seattle’s main library

The vast majority of the
trash MIT tracked reached
a facility that followed federal Environmental Protection Agency standards.
The city of Seattle has a
contract with a recycling
facility, requiring that it has
95 percent of the material
recycled, Stav said, so it’s
not surprising to hear that
most gets recycled.
“It’s an audit of our system. It shows our recycling
does work,” he added.

Transfer stations
The city’s trash is typically taken to two city
transfer stations before
being loaded onto a train to
a landfill in Oregon about
300 miles away.
Karin Landsberg, 43, a
transportation planner who
lives in Seattle, has often
thought about where Seattle’s trash goes.

MIT researchers tagged
a compact fluorescent light
bulb, a printer cartridge, a
circuit board from a defunct
washing machine, a tin can
and a glass bottle.
The smart tags, about
the size of a matchbook,
sent data to the MIT server
through a cellular network.
“It really does matter
that when we put things in
the right bin, it does go into
the right place,” she said.

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Food
and Family

Cashew and curry
Classic country captain revised
Old, new
versions
all the rage
By Alison Ladman

The Associated Press

There’s always risk
when tinkering with an old
recipe, one likely to be
invested with comforting
memories by many. But
with country captain, an
Americanized “curry” dish
that’s been around for at
least 150 years, it seems to
be all the rage.
So we started with a
version made popular by
AP’s late longtime food editor, Cecily Brownstone.
Then we updated it for the
contemporary kitchen with
better techniques — the
toasting of spices for better
flavor, for example — and
better ingredients — few of
us are willing to cut up our
own chickens these days.
The result is a delicious
revision of a classic dish,
one with familiar, but —
we think — better, more
sophisticated, more
authentic flavor.

The Associated Press

There’s always risk when tinkering with an age-old recipe, one likely to be invested with comforting memories by many. But
with country captain, an Americanized “curry” dish that’s been around for at least 150 years, it seems to be all the rage.

ture, rubbing it in where necessary.
Heat butter in 10- or 12-inch
skillet until very hot; add
chicken and brown well on all
sides.
If 10-inch skillet is used,
squeeze in bony back pieces at
sides.
Start with 4 tablespoons butter and add remaining tablespoon if necessary to brown
chicken well or if there are not
enough drippings in pan for
next step.
Remove chicken pieces; add
onion, green pepper, garlic,
curry powder and thyme to
drippings in skillet.
__________
Stir over low heat to get up
browned particles and cook
Have chicken cut so there
are 2 pieces of breast, 2 wings, 2 slightly; add stewed tomatoes,
legs, 2 second joints, 2 pieces of including liquid in can.
Return chicken to skillet,
bony back. Wing tips, neck and
giblets may be used for stock for skin side up.
Cover skillet and cook slowly
another dish.
until tender — 20 to 30 minWash and clean chicken
utes. Stir currants into sauce.
pieces in cold water; drain.
Serve accompanied by
Mix flour, salt and pepper;
almonds.
coat chicken pieces with mix-

_______
In a small, dry skillet over
low heat, combine the curry
powder, paprika, cumin and
cinnamon.
Toast, stirring constantly,
for 1 to 2 minutes, or until the
spices become fragrant.
Transfer the spices to a
small plate and set aside.
In a shallow bowl, mix
together the flour, salt and
pepper.
Dredge the chicken pieces
through the flour mixture,
being sure to thoroughly coat
all sides, but shaking off any
excess.
In a large skillet over
medium-high, combine the
butter and the oil.
Heat until the butter is
melted.
Add the chicken, searing

the pieces on all sides until
well browned.
Transfer the chicken to a
plate and set aside.
Add the onion, both bell
peppers, garlic, ginger, red pepper flakes, reserved toasted
spice blend and thyme.
Reduce heat to medium and
saute until the onion is soft
and translucent, about 6 to 7
minutes.
Add the potatoes, tomatoes,
broth, raisins and chicken.
Bring to a simmer, then
cover and continue simmering
until the chicken is cooked
through and the potatoes are
tender.
Adjust the seasoning with
additional salt and black pepper, to taste.
Serve garnished with the
toasted almonds.

Cashew Chicken
Serves 6

The Associated Press

Homemade cashew chicken is an easy dish that dirties
just one pan and one bowl and comes together in just
about 20 minutes.

together the oyster sauce,
soy sauce, sugar, white
pepper, rice wine and
sesame oil.
Set aside.
In a large, deep skillet
or wok over mediumhigh, heat the vegetable
oil until shimmering.
Add the chicken and
stir-fry until lightly
browned, 2 to 3 minutes.
It should not be completely cooked through
yet.
Add the green peppers, onion and fresh ginger.
Stir-fry until the
chicken is cooked
through and the onions
are translucent, about
another 5 to 6 minutes.
Stir in the sauce and
the
cashew nuts, thor________
oughly coating all ingreIn a small bowl, whisk dients.

Simple take
on recipe
Homemade cashew chicken
just as good as takeout
By Alison Ladman
The Associated Press

For homemade to best takeout, it needs
to be not just better, but also just as fast and
create little mess.
So that was our goal when we set out to
create a version of the classic American-Chinese dish — cashew chicken. The result is
an easy meal that dirties just one pan and
one bowl and comes together in about
20 minutes.
Add some rice or noodles, and you’ve got
a complete meal in less time than it would
take for the delivery guy to arrive.

SEQUIM — Thirty-one
students and their parents
braved the 27-degree cold
and a rigorous obstacle
course Saturday morning
for the Sequim Education
Foundation’s third annual
Engineering Challenge.
Held at the Boys & Girls
Club, this year’s challenge
was a Mars Rover Contest.
Budding
engineers
invented rovers of all
shapes and sizes, both

wheel- and propeller-driven.
Winners in the kindergarten through grade five
division were fourth-grader
Ashley Rosales, who took
first place; third-grader
Kyah Fukunaga, second;
and third-grader Lily Engeset, third.
The grade sixth through
12th division winners, in
order of finish, were: seventh-grader Melissa Copeland, sixth-grader Jon
Copeland and ninth-grader
Angela Bentley.

“When we planned the
challenge, we didn’t appreciate how difficult it was
going to be,” said contest
chairman Walter Johnson,
and organizers and contestants had to be adaptable.
“There was a lot of learning going on during the contest as students [and parents] watched the competition,” Johnson said. “It was
similar to a real-life engineering project where we
learn by observing results.”
Students were required

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Ashley Rosales, a scholarship winner, is pictured with her grandfather
and mentor, Bryce Fish.
to build vehicles weighing
less than half a pound and
using not more than two
rubber bands supplied by
the foundation for power.
The original challenge
course was a 30-degree
incline with water, rock and
glass-surfaced obstacles but
because of the difficulty, the
committee realized that
some changes needed to be
made.
Thus, the event was
divided into two parts.

A prequalification course
was constructed with a
15-degree incline and only a
rock obstacle. The students’
scores counted toward merchandise prizes.
Those who succeeded on
the first track then competed on the original
30-degree course for scholarships.
Like the 2009 Egg Drop
Contest and last year’s Popsicle Stick Bridge Building
Contest, everyone had fun,

and the event turned out to
be a success.
“The goal of SEF is to
inspire students to succeed,
and the can-do attitude of
our Sequim young people
was truly a wonderful thing
to observe,” SEF President
Dick Hughes said.
For more information on
the Sequim Education
Foundation, visit www.
sequimed.org.

Port Angeles Rotary names students of month
Peninsula Daily News

PORT ANGELES — The
Port Angeles Rotary Club
announced the recent recipients of its student of the
month award at Port Angeles High School.
They are:
■ Corbin Brabant,
who carries a 3.569 gradepoint average and is a
member of the school’s Distributive Education Clubs
of America and Future
Business Leaders of America.
He has previously
earned Rotary Youth Leadership and Soroptimist Star
awards.
Brabant also has volunteered in his church youth
group, as a Kiwanis camp
counselor and for the Festival of Trees and Make-AMagic is in the air at the
Bushwhacker Restaurant.
The aroma of delicious food
floating out of the kitchen
wetting the taste buds. The
warm smile of your server
as they take care of your
dining needs. Laughter and
good cheer are in the air as
everyone enjoys good food
and company. I invite you to
share the magic.

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Corbin Brabant

Alexis Corn

Alison Knowles

Connor Spurr

Wish Foundation and Relay
For Life.
He is the son of Bernie
and Lora Brabant.
■ Alexis Corn, who
has maintained a 3.9 gradepoint average while being a
captain of the girls soccer
team and playing tennis for

the Roughriders.
She earned the No. 2
seed to the district tennis
tournament as a junior last
year.
In 2009, Corn received
the Theodore Roosevelt
Student of the Month award
at the high school, where
she also participates in Key

Club, peer mediation and
Rider Crew.
She also was recently
named Port Angeles Girl of
the Month by the Clallam
branch of AAUW.
She is the daughter of
Maureen Sandison and Joe
Corn.

■ Alison Knowles carries a 3.8 grade-point average is a member of the
Roughrider girls basketball
team that played in the
state tournament last
weekend.
She also is a member of
the school’s cross country

Prize-winning film ‘Obselidia’
to be shown Friday at college
Screening set
for 7 p.m. in
Little Theater
Peninsula Daily News

PORT ANGELES —
Peninsula College’s Magic
of Cinema film series concludes its Movable Fest of
films from the fall 2010
Port Townsend Film Festival with the Friday screening of “Obselidia,” the winner of PTFF’s prize for
“Best Narrative Feature.”
It will be shown at
7 p.m. in the college’s Little
Theater.
The film had been
scheduled to show last Friday but was postponed

because of bad weather.
“Obselidia” is the debut
feature film by directorscreenwriter Diane Bell
and was a surprise hit at
the 2010 Sundance Film
Festival, where it captured
both the Alfred P. Sloan
Feature Film Prize and the
Excellence in Cinematography Award.
It also was nominated
for the Grand Jury Prize.
George, the central
character, believes he is
quite possibly the last
door-to-door encyclopedia
salesman in the world and
decides to write The
Obselidia, a compendium
of obsolete things.
In his quest to document nearly extinct occupations, he befriends

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projectionist who works at
a silent movie theater.
Sophie believes that nothing is obsolete as long as
someone loves it.
When they interview a
reclusive scientist who predicts that 80 percent of the
world’s population will be
obliterated by irreversible
climate change by the year
2100, the two must face
the question: If the world is
going to disappear tomorrow, how are we going to
live today?
Admission to the film is
$5, or $1 with a Peninsula
College student ID.
Movable Fest 2011 is
made possible through a
partnership between Peninsula College’s Magic of
Cinema series and the
Port Townsend Film Festival.
For more information,
visit the college website
at www.pencol.edu.

PORT ANGELES — The
Master Gardener’s Green
Thumbs Garden Tips
brown-bag presentation on
organic soil management
has been rescheduled for
Thursday, March 10.
Originally scheduled Feb. 24,
it was canceled due to
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from noon to
1 p.m. in the county commissioners’ meeting room
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and tennis teams and Rider
Crew.
Knowles was profiled
recently in a Peninsula
Daily News sports feature
story; it is online at http://
tinyurl.com/47jnwmp.
Like Corn, Knowles is a
Clallam AAUW Girl of the
Month.
She is the daughter of
Mike and Laura Knowles.
■ Connor Spurr is an
Eagle Scout who carries a
3.5 grade-point average.
At school, he serves as
an Associated Student Body
and is active in Key Club,
Future Business Leaders of
America, band, Knowledge
Bowl, cross country and
lacrosse.
Spurr also has earned
received the Soroptimist
Star and the President’s
Volunteer Service awards.
He is the son of Jim and
Gail Spurr.

State University Clallam
County Extension director,
will help gardeners identify
methods for organically
managing soils to improve
their gardening experiences
and outcomes.
In discussing ways to
organically improve soil
without using expensive
soil amendments, Beus will
cover composting, cover
crops, mulches, soil tillage,
sources of soil nutrients and
soil health.
Other topics will include
improving water drainage,
water-holding
capacity,
organic matter and fertility.
Beus has a Bachelor of
Science in animal science, a
master’s in adult education
and a doctorate in rural
sociology, all from WSU.
He has been the extension program director since
1996.
The “Green Thumbs
Gardening Tips” brown-bag
series is held the second
and fourth Thursday of
every month.
The series is free and
open to the public; attendees may bring a lunch.
For information, phone
360-417-2279.

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Newcomers’ Book Club

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

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donates to libraries

Newcomers of the North Olympic Peninsula donated $100 each to the Port Angeles and Sequim libraries. In the photo at left, from left,
Lucy Kittrick, Newcomers’ Book Club co-chair, presents a check to North Olympic Library System Director Paula Barnes and Nina Pitts,
librarian at the Port Angeles Library. In the photo at right, Pat Wisen, right, the other Newcomers’ Book Club co-chair, gives a check to
Margie Palmer, librarian at the Sequim Library. The book club meets monthly, alternating the site between the two libraries. For more
information about the Newcomers organization, visit www.olympicnewcomers.org.

Sustainable art
exhibit on tap at
Sequim museum
Peninsula Daily News

SEQUIM — Artists
working in all media are
invited to share their
visions of environmental,
economic and social sustainability at the Museum
& Arts Center in the
Sequim-Dungeness Valley’s
featured art exhibit for
April.
The exhibit, “The Art of
Sustainability: Considerate
Creativity Taking Personal
Responsibility for the
Future,” will explore how
one might engage in the
world through renewable
and nonimpacting means
that integrate natural systems and resources with
human needs.
Areas of artistic focus
might include but are not
limited to environmental
impact issues, wildlife conservation, the use of “green”
technologies and utilizing
existing natural resources.
MAC Art Exhibit Committee member Renne
Brock-Richmond developed
the exhibit theme.
She encourages artists
to “challenge yourself to
foresee the Olympic Penin-

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ntries will be
accepted Sunday,
March 27, from
11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and
Monday, March 28,
from 9 a.m. to noon at
the MAC Exhibit Center.

sula’s ecosystem and environment and encourage
leadership to maintain an
optimistic impact through
expression and innovation.”
Entry forms are available at the MAC Exhibit
Center, 175 W. Cedar St.,
Sequim, and on the MAC
website
at
www.mac
sequim.org.
There is a flat entry fee
of $5 for MAC members and
$10 for nonmembers, and
artists can submit up to
three pieces.
Entries will be accepted
Sunday, March 27, from 11
a.m. to 2 p.m. and Monday,
March 28, from 9 a.m. to
noon at the MAC Exhibit
Center.
The exhibit will run
March 29 to April 30.

Honoring

excellence

Stevens Middle School eighth-graders, from second from left, Audra Perrizo, Rikako
Yamamichi, Stephanie Dudley, Kendal Jacobson and Melanie Schimschal stand with
Rotarian Andy Callis, left, as they are honored by the Port Angeles Nor’Wester Rotary
Club. Each year, the club recognizes eighth-graders chosen by their teachers from Stevens
and Queen of Angels Catholic School for excellence in areas such as academics, music
and sports. Small groups of the honorees are hosted at weekly Rotary meetings, where
they discuss hobbies, favorite classes, interesting stories and future aspirations.

Wendy Duede, left, Soroptimist treasurer, and Barbara Carr, Girls Circle program administrator,
hold the ceremonial check for the donation from the professional women’s group.

at 360-379-9047 or e-mail
adubar@gmail.com.

Laureate society
SPOKANE — Breanna
Krumpe of Sequim has
been named to the Whitworth University Laureate
Society for the fall semester.
To qualify for the academic honors society, a student must earn a 3.75 or
higher grade-point average
during the semester.
Whitworth is a private
liberal arts university affiliated with the Presbyterian
Church (USA).
The university, which
has an enrollment of
nearly 3,000 students,
offers 60 undergraduate
and graduate degree programs.
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PT Soroptimist group makes donation
Peninsula Daily News

scholarships and monetary
awards to single mothers
attempting to further their
education and improve the
lives of their families
The Port Townsend/East
Jefferson County chapter is
made up of professional
women with diverse backgrounds.
They meet Thursdays at
noon at Discovery View
apartments
in
Port
Townsend.
For information, visit
www.soroptimistpt.org.

stocking clothing and other
necessities for children
moving into foster homes.
■ Birthday
gifts
throughout the year for
children in foster homes.
■ Furnishing linens
and other necessities to the
Dove House domestic violence center.
■ Monetary donations
to the domestic violence
program.
■ Sponsoring free mammograms to rural Jefferson
County women.
■ Presenting annual

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PORT TOWNSEND —
Soroptimist International
of Port Townsend-East Jefferson County has donated
$1,000 to Girls Circle, a program designed to promote
resiliency in adolescent
girls.
In doing so, the Soroptimists are partnering with
Jefferson County Juvenile
and Family Court Services,
which facilitates the program.
Because of recent reductions in funding for juvenile
justice programs, the support of the local Soroptimist
chapter is necessary for the
survival of the program.
The check was presented
to Barbara Carr, Jefferson
County Juvenile Court
administrator and one of
the facilitators of the program.
Through Girls Circle
programs in several counties around the state, juvenile justice professionals
are trying to serve their

female population in a more
gender-responsive manner.
The match between this
program and the Soroptimists is a natural one
because the mission of
Soroptimists is to improve
the lives of women and girls
in local communities and
around the world, said the
Soroptimist announcement
of the donation.
During the 10- to
12-week Girls Circle program, girls can get together
with peers and adult women
in their community in a
structured support group
set up to counter trends
towards self-doubt, help
girls maintain connections
in their community and
allow for self-expression
through verbal and creative
activities.
The circle meets free of
charge at the Dove House.
Other examples of projects by the Soroptimists of
Port Townsend and East
Jefferson County are:
■ Foster Care Closet,

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Red

is

Heart Month

Peninsula Daily News

color

Olympic Medical Center’s Cardiac Services Department’s celebration of American Heart Month in February included seeking submissions
of individuals, groups, co-workers and friends dressed in red — as the workers did for this picture taken after their Red, Set, Go! Heart
Luncheon at SunLand. Red is the official color of American Heart Month. The photos were displayed in the Cardiac Services department
and in an online album throughout February to help serve as a reminder to take care of one’s heart.

Port Angeles School District Superintendent Jane Pryne, second from
left, presents a certificate of appreciation to First Presbyterian Church
of Port Angeles representatives Sheri Stutesman and Pastor Ted Mattie
at a recent School Board meeting. Hamilton Principal Loren Engel, left,
looks on.
Sherry Creech, business manager of Peninsula Friends of Animals,
third from left, draws the winners’ names as, from left, volunteers
Ellen Morrison, Sharon Palmer and Sharlene Buscy look on.
Peninsula Friends of Animals house cat Mostus is also present for
the drawing.

First Presbyterian Church
donates $2,000 to school
Peninsula Daily News

PORT ANGELES —
Pastor Ted Mattie and
Sheri Stutesman represented First Presbyterian
Church of Port Angeles and
its members as they were
recognized by the Port
Angeles School District
board of directors at a
recent meeting for a donation of $2,000 to Hamilton
Elementary School.
The money will be used
for the purchase of school
supplies and library books.
“This donation is only

“Nineteen volunteers
tutor in classrooms to
provide additional
help to the student
learning process.”

Loren Engel
Hamilton Elementary principal

part of the great things the
First Presbyterian Church
does for our students and
staff,” Hamilton Principal
Loren Engel said.
“Nineteen volunteers
tutor in classrooms to pro-

PORT ANGELES —
Kindergarten registration
for the 2011-2012 school
year will begin Monday,
March 14, for all eligible
students in the Port Angeles School District.
Children must be 5 years
old prior to Sept. 1 for kin-

dergarten enrollment for
the 2011-2012 school year.
Parents are asked to provide the child’s birth certificate and immunization
record during registration.
Parents and guardians
are encouraged to register
their children early to
ensure the most efficient
placement for all students.

Schools will accept registrations between 8 a.m. and
4 p.m. Monday through Friday from March 14 through
June 28; registration will
reopen Monday, Aug. 15,
through the opening of the
2011-2012 school year.
Parents should register
their children at the elementary school nearest

vide additional help to the
student learning process.”
Volunteers from the
church also support student
programs, assist teachers,
provide recess support,
work with students one-onone and have completed a
variety of community projects at Hamilton.
School Secretary Julie
Smith reported that church
members have painted
classrooms and portables
and have deep-cleaned and
helped organize the school
library.